Fig. 4.—Wollishofen. All 1⁄3 real size.
There is a considerable number of chisels and gouges ([Fig. 4], Nos. 1 to 7), small tubes, broad-headed nails and studs. One bronze punch is bifurcated (Antiqua, 1886, Pl. v. Fig. 8). An elegant vase of solid bronze ([Fig. 3], No. 22), and fragments of large situlæ, made of thin bronze plates riveted ([Fig. 4], Nos. 17 and 22). One of the most remarkable objects is that represented on [Fig. 4], No. 21, which is supposed to be an anvil. Several long pins with sword-like handles, similar to one found on the Grosser Hafner ([Fig. 4], Nos. 9 and 10). Bronze hair-pins were so numerous that they are to be counted by hundreds in the Museum ([Fig. 3], Nos. 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 19 and 23 to 26). One bronze comb and one bronze fibula ([Fig. 3], Nos. 16 and 20). Bracelets are well represented, both closed and open; they are either flat or in solid mass ([Fig. 3], No. 13), and generally ornamented; one (No. 15), open at the ends, is made of two stout wires, one of which is spirally grooved, and the other plain; these wires are united at the ends by a tin pin, which passes through a loop formed by the recoil of the ends of the wires. A large hollow ring (three inches internal, and rather more than four inches external diameter) is highly ornamented. (See [Fig. 188], No. 2.) Finger-rings ([Fig. 3], No. 28), pendants (Nos. 29, 30, and 31), buttons (No. 21), studs (No. 27), a so-called portemonnaie, for ring money (No. 33), portions of girdles ([Fig. 4], No. 19). There are also one ringlet of gold and three beads, one of amber and two of glass. Amongst the nondescript objects are several small wheels—three of pottery ([Fig. 5], No. 6), five of bronze ([Fig. 3], Nos. 12 and 18), and two of tin (No. 32)—a leaden weight, which has a high loop of bronze ([Fig. 4], No. 23). An object of the same kind (No. 24), with two loops, was found at Onnens. Besides the two copper celts ([Fig. 3], No. 17) there were two small copper awls and several bits of this metal.
Fig. 5.—Wollishofen. All 1⁄3 real size.
Pottery.—The pottery at Wollishofen shows vessels made of two kinds of paste, one fine, and the other coarse containing a mixture of rough sand. The vessels varied much in size, the smallest being only about one inch in diameter, and the larger ones, judging from the curve of the fragments, ranged from sixteen to twenty-seven inches in diameter. They had no glaze, nor can it be said that the wheel was used in their manufacture, although some are very symmetrically shaped. No quartz or sand was mixed with the fine paste, of which the more ornamental vessels were made ([Fig. 5] Nos. 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 11, and 12). Some had a conical-shaped base, and could only be made to sit in soft material, such as sand, or by means of a ring, like those figured from the Kleiner and Grosser Hafner. One small vessel was trilocular, having its three chambers or bowls attached to one common base. Some very flat vessels were found, which are supposed to have been lids ([Fig. 5], No. 7). Spindle whorls of burnt clay variously ornamented ([Fig. 5], Nos. 13 to 20), and some other objects like modern thread pirns (Nos. 5 and 10) are in abundance. Portions of six crescents are all differently ornamented. Some now in the Museum have been restored, so as to show their original form and ornamentation, and it is from one of these that the illustration here given was taken ([Fig. 5], No. 8). Some dishes took the forms of animals, as in No. 4, and were probably used as lamps.
Among other objects may be mentioned some bits of red stone, supposed to have been used as paint; foundry materials, as moulds and bronze dross; portion of a dug-out canoe; various bits of sawn and cut horn; etc.
Human Remains.—The only portion of a human skeleton was a skull, which, according to Dr. Kollmann, is of the mesocephalic type. (B. 420, p. 90.)
Organic Remains.—Wheat, millet, hazel-nuts, and crab-apples, were identified.