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 Bronzes, Statuettes, Votive Boats. 7i dug under them. The result was a harvest even more abundant than the preceding. On the first intimation at headquarters of the peasants' proceedings, Professor Vivanet, Royal Commissary of Antiquities, had himself conveyed to the field of action, where he was in time to secure for the Cagliari museum the bulk of the more important finds. In the expectation of further discoveries, M. Gouin, in 1882, bought some land adjoining the large nuragh, but was unluckily unable to carry on the excavations himself, entrusting them to a m$&. Fig. 70. — The Teti Repository. From M. Gouin. man who was incompetent to furnish a full and satisfactory account of his labours. 1 At a place called " Inter-Rogas," "among rocks," some 20 metres from the site explored by the rustics, a narrow plateau about 25 metres by 5 metres was attacked. Here traces of buildings, probably the ground floor of former huts, were uncovered, and a whole collection of weapons, figures, pottery, and chips of kitchen utensils. At first the trenches sunk in the large nuragh had produced very little ; but after the place had 1 Owing to a printer's mistake, the report bears the name of M. Rissardi.