564 



REPOKT OF NATIONAL MU8EUM, 1891. 



^'Fibula of iron (Fig. o'2) of gigantic dimensions. The eye-sbapecl 

 liolcs upon tlie axis correspond to tliose from Tiirsel, Kanger, and 

 Odsen and a|)pear as the trademark from wliicli to conclude on similar 

 source and age. It resembles a specimen found at Asclieraden upon 

 tbe Duna,' which, however, is of much more recent make; similar 

 forms have been observed in the stone positions of Eippoka, and Lake 

 Strante in central Livonia.^ 



" Figs. 53 and 54 are fibuLc with reversed bodies; they are the first of 

 [ their kind found in the Baltic provinces. 



rig. 52. Fig. 53. 



FiBvii^ FROM Cinerarium at Tlrsel, Russia. 



(Copied frcim C. C.rewnisk, iii Vtrh. gel. Est. Ge.s. 188R. U.l. .xiii.) 



" Fibuhie similar to those figured in numbers 55, 50, 57 are known from 

 the boat grave of Maaro,"' 



"Fig. 58 had been subjected to the action of fire and was found upon 

 the second phalanx of the little finger of an apparently female hand. 

 Thisformis characteristic of the cineraria of the first Iron age in Livonia, 

 Estonia, and Finland. They have been found in the Ostrobottnien 

 district of Finland ^ in several cineraria of Estonia (LTxom) and Livonia 



'Sitziiugsber. d. gel. Estn. Ges. zu Dorpat, 1871, p. 78, with cuts. 



-Archiv f. Authrop. x. pi. ii, fig 5**. Undset : Erstes Auftreteu des Eisens iu Noid 

 Europa. Hanabnrg, 1882, pi. xvii, fig. 4. 



^Archiv f. Authrop. x, i>l. ii, fig. .5. p. 91. Haylmaun : Vateiliiud. Museum /.w Dor- 

 pat, 1871, p. 79, pi. viii. 



Wnpchii: Auti(i. lig. 1280, 1281. 



