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rudimentary form of brooch, or that of " the safety-pin." 

 Five similar brooches have been discovered in lake- 

 dwellings of the bronze age in Switzerland, and are to 

 be seen in the museums of Berne, Zurich, and Bienne. 

 Some of the clasps are highly ornamented, and present 

 a pattern in waved lines and dots, which was widely 

 spread throughout the Continent in the Bronze age. 

 Simple torques with turned-up ends, and either twisted 

 or adorned with chevrons, pins, various pendants, chains, 

 and rings, complete the list of the more important orna- 

 ments. 



Lake Dwellings of Late Bronze Age. 



All the articles described in the preceding pages, 

 from the hoards both of the merchant and the bronze- 

 smith, occur in the lake-dwellings of France and Switzer- 

 land, assigned by M. Desor to " La Belle Age du Bronze 

 en Suisse," and referred by M. Chantre to the Khodanian 

 age. They are found also in those considered by M. 

 Chantre to belong to the transition of the age of Bronze 

 to the age of Iron. Bronze swords occur at Moeringen, 1 

 with hilts inlaid with iron, side by side with bronze- 

 hilted iron swords, and bronze bracelets inlaid with iron. 

 This association of iron with bronze is particularly im- 

 portant, occurring as it does here in the middle of the 

 characteristic ornaments and weapons of the late Bronze 

 age. Other articles before unknown in France or Swit- 

 zerland also appear along with the new metal ; such, for 

 example, as the peculiar brooch made of twisted wire, 

 of the " safety pin " kind, so abundant in the Etruskan 

 tombs of Bologna, and horses' bits also of Etruskan 

 design. 



1 Keller, LaJce-Ltvellinys, trans, by J. E. Lee, 2d vol. pi. xlix. 



