566 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



of the district of Kastenburg/ aid in the lloman colonies npon the 

 llliine and in Hanover, 



"Ornamented disk of bronze plate, rim tnrncd down, with iron knob 

 in the middle with iron pin, is figured in GO and 61. It recalls the 

 phahya of a Roman soldier,^ or the ornament of a warrior as found in 

 Nydam Moss.'' Similar forms have been found in the Baltic provinces, 

 m Pomerauia.'' Their form is also approached in specimens from the 

 urn graves in Courland,^ in the distiicts of Wilna and Wilkomirz,'' 

 and in East Prussia." 



"Horseshoe-shaped ornament (Fig. ()2) resembles the armiUa of a 

 Koman soldier." The circular or disk ornamentation recurs upon the 



C^ 



Fig. GO. 





Fia. 61. 

 Ornaments fko.m Cinkr.\kium .\t Tursel, Russia. 



(Copied lioni C Cirewmgk .11 Vi^ili. eel. Kst. Ges. 1888. Bil. X]ll. ) 



Fi.o-. (i2. 



handle of a Roman treasury box,^ while the four-pointed star in the in- 

 terior of the disk ornamentation has been found upon articles from 

 Livonia and Courland.'" 



"Fig. 03 is a bronze pin, apparently belonging to a buckle, nor is the 

 possibility excluded that it may have formed part of the horseshoe- 

 shaped ornament just described. 



" Another horseshoe-shaped ornament is found in Fig. 04, the ends 

 being wound in spirals. The spiral is one of the oldest forms of metal 

 decoration of the earliest Baltic bronze age. 



"Fig. 05 is a bronze ring; has been injured by action of fire. Himilar 

 rings, although somewhat smaller, occurred in the Slaweek boat." 



1 Asi)c\in : Antiq. Fig. 1884. Verh. d. Berl. Ges. f. Anthrop. 1885, p. 247. Sitzuugs- 

 ber. d. Alterthumsgesellsehaft "Prussisi" in Konigsberg. Nov. 1885-'86, pp. 9, 116, 

 143. 



- lAndensclnnit : Altertliiimer heid. Vorzeit. i. Heft 4, PI. 6. 



' MontcUus: Die Cultur Schwedens in vorchristliclier Zeit. Berlin 1885, p. 105, cut. 



^Photogv. Album d. Berliner Ansstellnng, 1880, Sect, ii, PI. 23 and 24. Catal. s. 

 324 No. 99, Sect, iii, PL 4. 



■'AspeJin: Antiq. Fig. 1845. 



'^' Samnilnug Prodczacynski in Krakan. 



'Undset: Erstes Anftreten des Eisens, p. 222. 



>^Lin(len,iclnnit: Alterthiimer Bd. i. Heft 6, PL 5. Enielc : Alterthiimcr Rheinlies- 

 sens. Mainz 1833, PL 29, Fig. 2. 



"Wagner: Handbuch d. Altertbnnisknnde, 1842, Fig. 297. 



'"AHpelin: Antiq. Fig. 1776, 1778, 1784, 1785. 



" Sicrcri^, GraJ'K: Bericht iiber archiiologische Unter.snchungen, 1875. Verbandl. 

 d Estn. (le.sellseh. Bd. vili. Heft :L 

 No. 32. 



Horpat 1876, PL i, Fig. 13, p. 8, No. 22, and p. 17, 



