Aeliana_, 1908, p.205.I owe to Dr.Chalmers Mitchell a criticism on the truthfulness of the sculpture.] [Illustration: FIG.18.THE CORBRIDGE LION.

(P.43.)] These exceptions to the ruling Roman-provincial culture are probably commoner in Britain than in the Celtic lands across the Channel.

In northern Gaul we meet no such vigorous semi-barbaric carving as the Gorgon and the Lion.

At Trier or Metz or Arlon or Sens the sculptures are consistently classical in style and feeling, and the value of this fact is none the less if (with some writers) we find special geographical reasons for the occurrence of certain of these sculptures.[1] Smaller objects tell much the same tale.

In particular the bronze 'fibulae' of Roman Britain are peculiarly British.