DRESS-FASTENEES. 



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which, as a mode of fastening" the dress, is difficult to understand ; 

 these also usually are prettily ornamented [fig. 5 ] ; a jet article, 

 probably to brace the belt [fig-. 6] ; a kind of clasp or fibula of 

 bone [fig\ 7] ' ; and pins of bone or of boar's-tusk [figs. 8, 9]. 



Fig. 3. 



Fie:. 4. J-. 



The nature of the materials of which weapons and implements 

 were made has enabled us to obtain a considerable amount of in- 

 formation with respect to them. These various articles are met 



have formed a portion of the necklace. Though these are pi-ecisely like buttons, and 

 as large as some which have certainly answered that purpose, yet on account of the 

 number found together, and of their ha\'iug been mixed up with beads, it is probable 

 that they were decorative, and not used for fastening the di-ess. See Bateman, 

 Vestiges, pp. 24, 47 ; also Evans, Stone Impl. p. 409. 



* A gold article, which api)ears to con-espond with these bone fastenings, was 

 found by Sir R. Colt Hoare in Bush Barrow. Ancient Wilts, vol. i. p. 204, pi. 

 xxvii. fig. 1. 



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