OF THE LAKE OF NEUCHATEL, 



emlDellisLed with simple designs, (Fig. 62.) These were probably rings for the 

 leo-s * A considerable number of bracelets are so small that, unless we suppose 

 tb'em intended for children, it is difficult to conceive how they could have been 



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Figure 62. 

 63 ;) others 



Fiffure 6".te. 



Figure 61. , 



passed over the hand, however smalh 

 its dimensions. This, again, seems 

 to confirm the idea that the race of 

 I the bronze epoch was a diminutive 

 one. 



The ear-rings are variously fash- 

 ioned; some are in the form of a 

 thin plate, narrowing toward the 



point of suspension, (Fig. 

 are simple strands of bronze. We have 

 specimens covered with a sort of enamel, 

 the composition of which deserves an an- 

 alysis. Some, again, are of slight threads, 

 to which a small convolved appendage is 

 suspended. 



The objects which we regard as amulets 

 ' are small triangular metallic plates, fur- 

 nished with an opening at the top, prob- 

 ably for suspension to the neck. Most 

 of them are ornamented with designs, usually parallel to 

 rio-ureu.>a the sides of the triangle and in zigzag lines, (Fig. 64.) 



Others are composed of several branches, (Fig. 65;) while others are crescents 



borne upon a stem, (Fig. 66 ) 



The designs which 

 adorn these several 

 objects of dress, as 

 well as the knives and 

 other utensils, are 

 generally much de- 

 faced, which leads to 

 the supposition that 

 they are only the re- 

 production of the fig- 

 ures of the mould 

 ' which had been them- 

 selves engraved on 

 Fio-ure 65. the primitive model. 



But there are others which are of too sharp outline 



to have been a mere reproduction by moulding. 



These have been probably retouched by means of 



burins of bronze, of which a number have been 



collected. Figurejie^ 



* Similar ones may be seen in the museum of Wiesbaden, around the leg-bones of a wo- 

 man's skeleton, brought from the euvirous of Uoechst. 



