Fig. 63.—Peschiera. All 1⁄2 real size.
Fig. 64.—Peschiera. No. 32 = 1⁄4, and all the rest = 1⁄2 real size.
The ornamental objects are hair-pins, combs, pendants, bracelets, fibulæ, and a torque. Hair-pins are in great numbers and of extreme elegance both in form and ornamentation (profusely illustrated in [Figs. 63], [64], and [65]); among them are some with amber heads ([Fig. 63], Nos. 9 and 10); some have flat, others disc-shaped, heads (Nos. 17, 18, and 25); especially interesting are those with heads made of various combinations of spirals (Nos. 21 to 27), as being identical with the hair-pins of the terremare. Combs are of bone (No. 29) as well as of bronze (No. 28). Pendants of curious and varied forms are also abundant ([Fig. 64], Nos. 27 to 29), among which one ([Fig. 63], No. 34) is of lead. The small ornamental cross represented by No. 26, [Fig. 64], is of tin. The fibulæ are also of diversified forms, as may be seen from the illustrations ([Fig. 64], Nos. 8, and 22 to 25). The bracelets are of two kinds, made of thin bands ([Fig. 63], Nos. 31 and 32), one closed with a hook and the other open. Only one torque (No. 19) has been found at Peschiera, and in form it is similar to the few recorded from the Swiss lake-dwellings ([Fig. 10], No. 3).
Finally there are a few spirals, bits of wire, and one special object of unknown use ([Fig. 64], No. 17).
The relationship which these objects have to analogous remains in foreign countries is most exhaustively and ably dealt with by Professor Pigorini. (B. 310.)
Mincio.—As the surplus water of Lake Garda, under the name Mincio, passes beyond the railway-bridge, it divides into two larger channels and some smaller ones, forming a series of acutely-pointed islands. The bed is here irregular, and at various points the tops of piles were seen in groups projecting from the bed of the river. The first explorations were in the larger channel to the left. Here De Stefani found several objects of antiquity, among which the following are the principal (B. 358):—
Bronze.—The corroded blade of a knife-dagger (double-edged), portion of a dagger-blade with a mid-rib, portion of another with deep longitudinal grooves, portion of a small disc and portion of a spiral.