form of the "trumpet pattern," or flamboyant, it is seen in various ornaments of the type of Fig. 158. In this shape it is frequently associated in Ireland and in Scotland with the Germanic knotted-cord pattern (Fig. 167). Its distinctness, however, from this is proved by its wide distribution over France and Switzerland long before the Germanic invasion of those countries. In the lake-dwelling of Marin,[1] for example (Fig. 164), it occurs on many of the scabbards and ornaments belonging to the ancient Helvetians of that district; and in Scandinavia it is to be seen on one of the sculptured slabs in the famous tomb of Kivik, belonging to the Bronze age.
Fig. 161.—Late Celtic Pattern, Dagger Sheath, Witham.
Fig. 162.—Z and Double Mirror, Dunnichen Stone.
Fig. 163.—Strange Animal form, Dunnichen Stone.
Fig. 164.—Design on Bronze Sheath, Marin.
The art of enamelling the surface of metal appears for the first time in north-western Europe in the Prehistoric Iron age, and its chief centre seems to have been the British Isles and the adjacent parts of Gaul.[2]
