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Rh Plate XLI. illustrates some of the objects which both Pigorini and Quagliati regard as satisfactory evidence that the people who constructed and inhabited the terramara settlement at Taranto towards the end of the Bronze Age lived under the same civilisation as prevailed in the Po Valley, from which they are supposed to have emigrated. Of the pottery, Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7 are good specimens of the anse cornute, and perfectly identical, both in technique and material, to those of the ordinary terremare. The two handles Nos. 3 and 4, are of the same material, but only the former has hitherto been met with in

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FIG. 156. Various Objects found on the Terramara of Taranto. (No. 1 equals ⅓ ; 2,4,5 equals 4/9 ; 3 equals 2/9)

terramara deposits, while the latter is probably due to foreign influence. Quagliati figures several bronze implements, viz., a winged celt, a sickle, and a double-edged razor (Nos. 8 and 10), all of which are familiar objects in terramara collections ; also a short sword (Fig. 156, No. 1), a one-edged knife (No. 2), a dagger with a solid bronze hilt having raised edges (No. 3), and two violin-bow fibulae (Nos. 4 and 5). Pigorini regards these as evidence that the emigration of terramara folk from Emilia to lower Italy took place towards the end of the Bronze Age. The sword is not among the objects found on early terramara sites, and Pigorini could point to one only similar to it, viz., one found on the station of Servirola di Sanpolo (Emilia) (B.P., i.,