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THE FIRST SETTLEMENT.
[Chap. II.

brooches of bronze or copper with globular heads are also very frequent in the terramare of the Emilia, in which the fibula has never yet been found.[1] On the other hand, these brooches are never found in the funeral hut-urns discovered at Marino near Albano and in the environs of Corneto, in which the fibulae are very abundant. It appears, therefore, certain that these hut-urns, for which a very high antiquity is generally claimed, belong to a later time than the latest prehistoric city, and even to a later time than the Lydian settlement of Troy. In most of the Swiss lake dwellings both the brooches with globular heads and those with spiral heads are found together with fibulae, from which we must naturally conclude that these lake dwellings belong to a comparatively late time; for, as Professor Rudolf Virchow[2] justly remarks, the fibula has been "engendered" by the straight brooch. This scholar also found fibulae, together with brooches with spiral or globular heads, in his excavations in the prehistoric Necropolis of Upper Koban in the Caucasus,[3] which belongs to the 9th or 10th century, B.C.[4] I must say the same of the ancient necropolis of Samthawro near Mtskheth, the ancient capital of Georgia, which has been excavated by the "Société des Amateurs d'Archéologie du Caucase,"[5] where fibulae also occur together with globular-headed or spiral-headed

    crescent-like earring of very thin silver leaf, represented in Ilios, p. 250, No. 122. Like the nine carrings of an identical form, made of very thin gold leaf, which are represented by No. 917, p. 501, in Ilios, the small silver object can be nothing else than an earring.

  1. ↑ Dr. Ingvald Undset assures me, however, that in carefully examining the débris in the terramare of the Emilia he discovered fibulae in them, of which he gathered in all thirteen.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Virchow, Das Gräberfeld von Koban im Lande der Osseten, Berlin, 1883, p. 24.
  3. ↑ Idem, p. 32, Plate I. No. 20, Plate II. No. 7.
  4. ↑ Idem, p. 124.
  5. ↑ Objets d'Antiquité du Musée de la Société des Amateurs d'Archéologie au Caucase, Tiflis, 1877, p. 19. Pl. VI. No. 9.
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