570 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



"Figs. 84, 85, 86 represent belt fasteuiiigs of bronze; corresponding 

 lorms occur in tlie stone heaps of Strantesee; they are often mot with 

 in the first Baltic, iron jkeriod, and in the younger Scandinavian bronze 

 ai>e. 



Fig. 81. 



Fig. 82. 

 Nippers from Cinerarium at TOrsel, Russia. 



(Copied from C. Greuingk, in Verb. gel. F.sf. Gp^. 18SS. lid. xill. ) 



"A lance point is shown in Figs. 87 and ^'^', similar i>oint was found 

 m the Kaugerkrawand in Livonia, together witli Roman coins of the 

 years 161 to 180. 



''Figs. 89, 90, 91, and 92 are single-edged iron knives, of a form not 

 otherwise known in the East Baltic Lands. Some knives from the 



FiS. 83. 

 Buckle from Cinehaeium at Ti'rsel, IIussia. 



(Copi.d Irc.M. (■ (ir,.vvingk, 111 Verb. gel. Kbt. (.ie>. IsxS. I'., I xill.i 



Slaveek shij)' approach the form, as also some from the Finni.sh Dis- 

 trict Wasa.^ Knives corresponding to those found atTiirsel have been 

 taken from graves of the first iron period in the province of East 

 Prussia,'^ and they have also occurred at Ascheraden, in skeleton graves 

 of the younger iron period."^ 





Fig. 84. Fig. 85. 



Belt FASTENINGS FROM CINERARIUM AT TC'RSEL, RUSSIA. 

 ( Copied (rom C. Grewuigk. in Veil,, gel. K.st. Ges. ISSa Bd. xiii. 



Fig. 86. 



From the large number of imported bronze articles found (Irewingk 

 concludes that the fV)reigii intercourse with Tiirsel appears to Iiave been 

 more extended than with any other portion of Estonia an<l Livonia; 



1 Sievers, Graf A'., Berioht in VerliaiuU. d. Estn. Ge.s viii Heft.3, PI. i, Fig. 34, 4:^-4.5. 

 -Archiv f. Aiitlirop. x, p. 81, 310. 



■^ JierciHll: Zwei Griibert'elfler in Nataugcn. Kunigsberg, 1S74, PI. i, P'ig. 26; PI. 

 vii. Figs. 26, 30. Sitzungsltcr. d. AlterMminsgcs. " Pnis.sia." Nov. 188,">-86, p. 9, PI. iv. 

 ^.Ix2)erni: Antq. Fig. 1921 :md 2085. 



