FISH-HOOKS. 109 



considered as belonging to the transition from stone to bronze, and the dug-out 

 may be of bronze-age origin. 



FISHING-IMPLEMENTS AND UTENSILS NOT DERIVED FROM LAKE- 

 HABITATIONS. 



Under this head I have so little to say that subdivisions appear entirely 

 superfluous ; for, though many non-lacustrine bronze-age objects bearing upon 

 fishing may be in existence, my scanty literary material will not permit me to go 

 beyond an allusion to a few fish-hooks and boats. 



* * * 



Fio. 164. Ireland. Fio. 165. Scotland. Fio. 166. Scotland. Fio. 167. Denmark. 



FIGS. 164-167. Bronze fish-hooks. 



Mr. John Evans states in his excellent work on the bronze age that he 

 knows only of one bronze fish-hook found in the British Islands, namely, the 

 Irish specimen figured by Sir W. Wilde.* It is here represented as Fig. 164. 

 In this specimen, it will be seen, the upper end of the shank is flattened out for 

 the attachment of the line, just as in modern fish-hooks. There are, however, 

 in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland five bronze hooks from 

 Glenluce, Wigtonshire, two of which have been figured. Figs. 165 and 166 are 

 copies.f Mr. Worsaae figures only one Danish fish-hook of bronze in his cat- 

 alogue of the antiquities in the Copenhagen Museum.J His representation is 

 here copied as Fig. 167. He informs me that this fish-hook was found in the 

 Island of Fiinen, adding that several others are in the Copenhagen Museum, 

 one of them belonging to a large find of bronze-age antiquities in a tumulus 



* Sir W. Wilde : Catalogue ; p. 526, Fig. 403. 



f Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1880-'81 ; Edinburgh, 1881 j Figs. 10 and 11 on p. 278. 



t Worsaae : Nordiske Oldsagor ; p. 60, Fig. 277. 



