{Finger-rings | 32 | 121 Objects {Earrings | 4 | 22 of {Girdles | 1 | 1 Ornament {Buckles, Rings, etc. | 140 | 598 {Pendants | 7 | 16 {Clasps | 7 | 50 {Buttons | 35 | 63 {Brackets, etc. | 43 | 185 {Beads | 115 | 488 {Tubes and Spirals | 8 | 73 | | Diverse Objects | 34 | 108 +----------+-------------- Total | 1,110 | 4,002 ------------------------------------------+----------+-------------- GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PALAFITTES OF LAKE BOURGET.--Count Costa de Beauregard, in his excellent article on the "Habitations Lacustres du Lac du Bourget" (B. 176), states that the stakes on which these villages were reared were generally of oak, measuring from six to eight inches in diameter, and that they were placed at a distance of 100 to 200 yards from the shore, in a depth of 4 or 5 yards of water. Their lower extremities almost always bore cutting marks, which could only be made by metal tools. The great differences as regards their state of preservation show that the settlements had been occupied for a long time, necessitating the renewal of the piles at different epochs. The Count also believes that all the palafittes of Lake Bourget were constructed during the Bronze Age, in regard to which he thus writes:--"Malgré les quelques instruments de silex et les hachettes de pierre rencontrés dans nos fouilles, il est peu probable, comme je l'ai déjà dit, que ces bourgades aient été fondées à l'Epoque de la Pierre. Tout nous porte à croire, au contraire, qu'elles florissaient à l'Epoque du Bronze, période qui a dû être de fort longue durée en Savoie, car il a fallu bien des siècles pour accumuler sur les différents points que nous avons explorés une pareille quantité d'objets et de débris de toute sorte." (_Ibid._, p. 23.)