HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 



Fig. d. — This is the pattern on the outside of an overrunning 

 tubular bracelet (of course in development). 



Interior diameter of the bracelet, 7 cm. 

 Museum no. 83379. 



Fig. d 



GENERAL REMARKS 



A few charred fragments of bone in the collection are probably 

 human; no animal bones appear. Bone was used sparingly in the 

 manufacture of implements and ornaments by this people. 



Glass appears in beads and in a spindle-whorl whose center is 

 perforated and filled with a bronze spring in the shape of a pair of 

 tweezers; this serves for suspension. The material of the whorl and 

 this method of attachment are extraordinary. 



The fibulae, except the few with a double hinge, all have both hinge 

 and channel on the left; it would however be reckless to suggest that 

 this connotes any right- or left-handedness on the part of the makers. 



Taking into consideration the position of Caverzano, the culture 

 as a whole is easiest explained by assuming an infiltration of the 

 Hallstatt-Bronze-Iron industries from the southeast. Further re- 

 searches in the Carnic Alps may discover air-line routes from Belluno 

 to northern Tyrol, to Hallstatt, and to the Danube valley, but this is 

 not likely. Even the amber has probably been brought south from 

 the Baltic and then back northward. 



Nothing in the collection is at variance with such a theory of 

 infiltration, and the other mooted questions of the movement of the 

 metal cultures by land and sea may very likely remain undisturbed 

 by the deductions from Belluno. 



As regards date, there are no La Tene fibulae, and practically the 

 whole collection may be included in the Villanova period, plus the 

 Certosa. 



Note I. — A coin of bronze with the inscription AIOS EAAANIOY is included in the col- 

 lection. Dr Malcolm Storer, Curator of Coins in Harvard University, has kindly identified it as a 

 coin of Syracuse, 289 or 288 B.C. It may therefore be generously called a "stray". 



Note 2. — Mr A. Wandtke, of Harvard University, has had the goodness to analyze a fragment 

 of a horned "wire"-bow fibula, which consisted of about 13 per cent of tin and 87 per cent of copper. 

 With this may be compared the following from Evans (in round numbers): Celt from Ireland: 

 tin, 12.57 P er cent; copper, 86.98 per cent. Caldron from Scotland: lead, 1.78 per cent; tin, 5.15 

 per cent; copper, 92. S9 per cent. Dagger from England: tin, 14.20 per cent; copper, 85.33 P er cent. 



Harvard University 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts 



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