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can go over the head ; it cannot be removed from the 

 adult except by breaking or tiling it. It is astonishingly 

 like the neck-rings worn by the Celtic, German, and Scan- 

 dinavian warriors of antiquity, and reminds one of that 

 around the neck of the "Dying Gladiator," who was prob- 

 ably a Gallic prisoner of war. 

 Bracelets. Figure 2. A 

 weighing If ounces, widest 



closed bracelet of brass, 

 Fig. 2. 



Bracelet, i size. 



diameter 2J, narrowest 2 

 inches ; thickness J to £ 

 of an inch. At the point 

 of closure, on the back of 

 the wrist, are two sym- 

 metrical knobs ; it is neat ly 

 ornamented, and in many 

 parts worn smooth by use. 

 It must have been put on 

 when the hand of the wear- 

 er was small enough to 

 pass through its rigid opening. 



Figure 3. A brass bracelet, weighing 3 ounces, ex- 

 treme width outside 2£ inches, circular opening for wrist 

 FlG 3 If to 1£ inches in diam- 



eter. The external rim, 

 £ of an inch wide, has 

 three parallel rows of 

 dots in longitudinal se- 

 ries, three dots in each 

 transverse row, so that a 

 definite pattern is fol- 

 lowed : from this rim, 

 the metal is symmetri- 

 bragelbt. i size. cally bevelled in two se- 



ries of chain work ornamentation, precisely the same above 

 and below, divided by a plain groove ; the external rim 



