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out in places so as to show knobs at intervals on the surface. Of 

 the seventy pieces none are more than two inches in diameter, 

 while all are much oxidised. On some fragments the repousse" 

 working seems to be in the form of a horse's head and of connected 

 circles, but with such small fragments it is not safe to positively 

 state what they really were. 



Animals' Bones. 

 Of a large quantity of bones obtained many have been split 

 longitudinally for culinary purposes, and they all doubtless repre- 

 sent the food of the former inhabitants of the site. Many of them 

 were kindly examined by Professor Boyd Dawkins, who reports 

 that the following animals are represented: — goat or sheep, horse, 

 pig, ox (Bos longifrons). 



Conclusions. 



In considering the date of this settlement, one is confronted 

 with the contradictory evidence of the bronze objects. If we take 

 the ring-headed pin as a contemporary relic the site would probably 

 be dated about 200 B,C. ; on the other hand, if the bronze awl be 

 admitted as evidence, the date would be somewhat earlier. 



As regards the pottery it may be said at once that it is more 

 like that of the Late Celtic age than any thing else, but still there 

 is a difference ; the best art of that age is influenced by classical 

 models, the graceful pedestalled urn, the beautiful spirals, and the 

 like, while the art of the period expressed by this pottery has 

 nothing of that character (as illustrated by the present finds). The 

 ornamentation is still mainly of the straight line Bronze Age de- 

 signs, and as such may perhaps be placed in a transitional period 

 between the two ages. Similar pottery, the shape and orna- 

 mentation being in some cases identical, occurs at the Late Stone 

 Age site of Butmir, near Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1 while the peculiar 

 triangle pattern of punctured dots is known from Khaba' anah in 

 Lower Egypt, sometimes accompanied by lines and spirals filled 

 in with white powder, and found with datable relics of the XII. 

 1 Hoernes. Die Neolithische Station von Butmir. 



