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PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



in Fiinen. Bronze hooks were found in the foundry of Larnaud (Jura) and in 

 the hoard of Saint-Pierre-en-Chatre (Oise),* but the works in which mention of 

 them is made are not at my disposal. 



Fio. 168. Fio. 169. 



FIGS. 168 and 169. Bronze fish-hooks in the form of hails. Germany. 



There are in a museum at Liibeck (Culturhistorisclies Museum) three fish 

 hooks made of thin sheet bronze, and having sharp points and somewhat fish- 

 shaped shanks. Mr. Christensen, who Describes and represents them in the 

 article quoted on page 72,f is of opinion that they were thus formed in order to 

 serve as artificial baits. Figs. 168 and 169 are fac-simile copies of two of his 

 rather uncouth illustrations. If these hooks were employed as baits, which 

 seems probable, it was chiefly their metallic lustre which attracted the fish, while 

 iron hooks of the same shape, on account of their less shining appearance, prob- 

 ably would have been useless. These Liibeck specimens, therefore, may have 

 purposely been made of bronze at a time when iron was the common metal. 



Mr. Friedel describes a bronze-age dug-out preserved in the Provincial 

 Museum at Berlin. It is made of an oak-stem, four meters long and eighty 

 centimeters wide, and was found in a turbary near Linum, in the District of 



* Evans: Ancient Bronze Implements ; p. 192. 



f Deutsche Fischerei-Zeitung ; March 22, 1881 ; p. 95. 



