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] pattern on one side and the other perfectly smooth. A fragment of a round hilt has a large oval pommel, fiat on the upper surface. The arrow-heads are thin triangular plates of bronze, generally with a tang, some hammered, others cast, and only one with a socket. A portion of a horse-bit was also discovered, and three fragments considered by de Mortillet to belong to a chariot.

The collection of ornaments, intended for the most part to be worn on the clothing, is of singular interest and beauty, and presents designs and shapes very widely distributed over Europe. The more important of them are given below.

The bracelets are either hollow or solid, of the split-ring type, round or flat in section. Some have their ends turned back after the manner of many of those found in Britain, Germany, and Denmark, and most are adorned with patterns of the kind figured above (Fig. 146, 1, 2, 3). One fragment,—a thin rod of bronze, strongly ribbed and twisted into the shape of a bow, with one end twisted so as to form a spring, and the other flattened to receive the pin,—presents us with the most