ROMANIZATION IN ART Art shows a rather different picture.

Here we reach definite survivals of Celtic traditions.

There flourished in Britain before the Claudian conquest a vigorous native art, chiefly working in metal and enamel, and characterized by its love for spiral devices and its fantastic use of animal forms.

This art--La Tene or Late Celtic or whatever it be styled--was common to all the Celtic lands of Europe just before the Christian era, but its vestiges are particularly clear in Britain.

When the Romans spread their dominion over the island, it almost wholly vanished.