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338 tav. vi., No. 7), a late settlement inhabited at the end of the terramara civilisation. The dagger and one-edged knife are not terramara types, and therefore their presence on the Scoglio del Tonno points to a late period. We need not dwell on the two fibulae, as they can be paralleled by similar specimens found not only in the tombs of Mycenæ (see Tsountas and Manatt, The Mycenæan Age, pp. 163-4), but also in the terremare of Emilia and in the palafittes of Lake Garda.

The clay idol (Fig. 156, No. 7) is said to indicate the influence of Mycenæan culture, although it does not bear much resemblance to Mycenæan figurines. It is made of artificial paste of a brown colour, with rounded head and stumps of arms stretched horizontally. A long angular nose, without any defined mouth, and eyes represented by two picked holes, complete its human likeness. Quagliati (B. 185, p. 288) thinks it impossible not to recognise in this rude image the effect of Mycenæan culture, for the first time imported into the locality during the last phase of the Bronze Age.

The finding of a female idol, the genuine product of Mycenæan art, in the upper bed, as already mentioned, gives countenance to the supposition that the rude figurine found on the terramara deposits was copied from an early Mycenæan specimen which had found its way to south Italy while the terramaricoli still occupied their citadel on the Scoglio del Tonno. (For further details, see B. 185, pp. 6, 285 ; and B. 186, p. 411.)

General remarks on the Terramara Settlements.

In the above sketch of the progress of the scientific investigation of the terremare I have selected a few typical examples for special description. We have seen that in one, viz. Montale, the accumulated débris stood as a clear mound on the surface of the surrounding plain, while that of Gorzano and Montata dell' Orto rested on natural hillocks. The Castione deposits also assumed the same form, but in this case the mound was only partially above the plain, the rest being as it were buried in it. The tops of the piles found in its peaty stratum (terra uliginosa) were on an average 3 feet below the