The Lake-Dwellings of Europe: Being the Rhind Lectures in Archæology for 1888Munro, Robert
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The Lake-Dwellings of Europe: Being the Rhind Lectures in Archæology for 1888
Munro, Robert
Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings -- Bibliography; Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings -- Europe
A bronze basin, measuring 10 inches in diameter and 4 inches in depth,
shows several patches or mendings (=Fig. 127=). It is formed of
several separate pieces of sheet-metal riveted together, and appears
to have had an iron handle.
Two bronze dishes, hammered out of the solid. One measures 12 inches
in diameter and 4 inches in depth. The other has the same diameter as
the former, but is 1 inch less in depth, and has a turned-over rim 1
inch in breadth (=Fig. 128=).
A bronze ring, having attached to it a portion of the vessel of which
it had been a handle (=Fig. 129=).
[Illustration: =Fig. 127.=--Bronze Dish, 10 inches in diameter.]
[Illustration: =Fig. 128.=--Bronze Dish, 12 inches in diameter.]
[Illustration: =Fig. 129.=--Bronze Ring-handle, ½ real size.]
A penannular brooch and a circular ornament, with trumpet-shaped
spaces, probably intended for enamel[99] (=Fig. 130=). Also a small
ring, a fragment of bronze, and iron slag.
Three iron hammers or axe-hammers (=Fig. 131=).
[Illustration: =Fig. 130.=--Bronze Brooch (1/1) and Bronze Ornament (2
inches in diameter).]
[Illustration: =Fig. 131.=--Iron Hammer-Axes (½).]
_Glass._--Two beads of earthenware of a ribbed pattern, showing traces
of a green glaze; one of vitreous paste of a whitish colour, with red
spots; half of another bead of white glass, streaked with blue; and a
large bead, 1¼ inch in diameter, of a somewhat remarkable character.
The latter has in the central perforation a tube of bronze, and the
edge of both sides of the perforation is ornamented by three minute
bands of twisted yellow glass, while the body is of blue glass, of a
ribbed pattern (=Fig. 132=).
[Illustration: Armlet of Whitish Glass streaked with Blue (½).
Portion of Armlet (1/1). Blue Glass Bead, 1 inch long and 1¼ wide.
Beads all real size. =Fig. 132.=--Objects of Glass or Vitreous Paste.]
Several portions of armlets of glass. Half of one is of white glass,
and streaked with blue. Others are of a yellowish or whitish colour
(=Fig. 132=). A small portion of blue glass.
_Leather._--Portion of a leather shoe, 7 inches in length, nearly
covered with ornamental stamped patterns (=Fig. 133=).
_Stone._--A thin flat stone, of a rectangular shape and highly
polished, is supposed to have been used as a mirror; five querns, a
flake of yellow flint, and several whetstones.
[Illustration: =Fig. 133.=--Portion of Leather Shoe (length, 7
inches).]
[Illustration: =Fig. 134.=--Bit of Samian Ware (1/1) and portion of a
Crucible (½).]
_Wood._--Five canoes, measuring from 18 feet to 25 feet in length,
and from 2 feet 7 inches to 4 feet 2 inches in breadth. Dr. Stuart
describes one as being "25 feet in length, and strengthened by a
projecting cross-band towards the centre, left in the solid in
hollowing out the inside." A large wooden vessel, roughly cut out of
the solid, and a portion of a bowl, with circular grooves made by
means of a wood-turner's lathe.
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