Note 112 — Chapter III · PAGAN CELTIC ART IN THE EARLY IRON AGE

A Late-Celtic boar’s head of bronze was found at Liecheston, in Banffshire, in 1816 (see Dr. J. Anderson’s Scotland in Pagan Times: Iron Age, p. 117). Three little bronze figures of boars, from Hounslow, now in the British Museum, are illustrated in the Proc. Soc. Ant. Lond. (2nd ser., vol. iii., p. 90); and the splendid bronze shield from the Thames at Battersea, in the same collection, has a boar represented upon it (see Kemble’s Horæ Ferales, pl. 14). The boar also occurs on one of the Scotch symbol-bearing slabs at Knock-na-Gael, near Inverness (see Stuart’s Sculptured Stones of Scotland, vol. i., pl. 38). For a boar on a helmet, see account of Benty Grange tumulus on p. 67.