[24]. A similar grave was found in Mull, and the brooches are in the possession of Lord Northampton at Torloisk, but I have no further information regarding them.
[25]. The metal of which these brooches are made is not bronze but a very soft brass. Professor Rygh has given the details of the analyses of four, and the composition of the metal is as follows:—
| Analyses of bowl-shaped brooches. | Copper. | Zinc. | Lead. |
| 1. From Stromsund, Norway | 74·78 | 10·44 | 14·36 |
| 2. From Braak, Norway | 72·85 | 11·90 | 15·71 |
| 3. From Gardness, Norway | 88·00 | 11·90 | ... |
| 4. From Denmark | 84·44 | 11·00 | 3·77 |
[26]. Proc. Soc. Antiq. Lond. 1861–64, p. 230. The comb is there said to have been of boxwood, but it seems more likely that it was of bone.
[27]. One of these brooches is figured in the Vetusta Monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries of London, vol. ii. pl. xx., and it is there said that “the fellow of it is in the British Museum.”
[28]. One of these is figured by Worsaae in the Aarboger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed for 1873.
[29]. Pope’s Translation of Torfaeus, Wick, 1866, p. 169.
[30]. The other was given to Mr. Worsaae on the occasion of his visit to Scotland, and I had no difficulty in recognising it in one of the cases of the Museum at Copenhagen.
[31]. It was the custom of the Northmen to bury their dead in mounds raised in their honour, but they also took advantage of mounds already raised, and of natural or artificial mounds which were convenient for the purpose. See also the remarks on the use of the mounds covering the ruins of Brochs as burial-places in the subsequent Lecture on Brochs.
[32]. This fine sword, now broken in many pieces, was presented to the Museum in 1874 by the representatives of the late Professor Thomas S. Traill, through the Rev. G. R. Omond, Free Church minister at Monzie, one of the oldest Fellows of the Society.