Note 264 — Chapter V · PAGAN CELTIC ART IN THE EARLY IRON AGE
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“The cloth was covered with an infinite number of little squares and lines as if it had been sprinkled with flowers, or was striped with crossing bars which formed a chequered design. Their favourite colour was red or a pretty crimson.” C. Elton’s Origins of English History, p. 114, quoting Pliny and Diodorus Siculus.