Note 65 — LECTURE III. (October 24, 1882.) THE CELTIC ART OF THE PAGAN PERIOD.
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These have been conjectured to be of Christian time, and to have been used in connection with the celebration of the Eucharist, but the evidence is insufficient to carry this conclusion. See the papers by Albert Way in Archæological Journal, vol. xxvi. p. 52; and by Rev. E. L. Barnwell in Archæologia Cambrensis, vol. viii. (Third Series) p. 208, and vol. x. p. 57.