The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . which, though apparently designed for perso-nal ornament, it is more difficult to assign an exact purpose. Severalof these will fall to be described in the following section, as from theirwell defined characteristics more probably pertaining to the latestPagan era; but others completely agree in their archaic style andworkmaiiship with undoubted relics of the Bronze Period. To thisclass belong various bronze rings, generally with broad expanded endsoverlapping each other, corresponding to a well-known class of conti-nental antiquities, which
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . which, though apparently designed for perso-nal ornament, it is more difficult to assign an exact purpose. Severalof these will fall to be described in the following section, as from theirwell defined characteristics more probably pertaining to the latestPagan era; but others completely agree in their archaic style andworkmaiiship with undoubted relics of the Bronze Period. To thisclass belong various bronze rings, generally with broad expanded endsoverlapping each other, corresponding to a well-known class of conti-nental antiquities, which the northern archaeologists believe to have made to ssimilar discoveries in Denmark; > This interesting inquiry is entered on and 1 am informed by Dr. Ludwig Becker at large by Mr. Samuel Birch, in two able ofa skeleton with several penannular bronze articles on the Tore of the Colts. Arclue- rings on the arm bones, found recently in n dlogical .louriial, vnl. ii. ji. oGO, and vol. iii. large tumulus near IMayence. p -7. PERSONAL ORNAMENTS. 327. been worn about the liead and entwined with the hair. Two of these,of very rude workmanship, now in the Museum of the Scottish Anti-quaries, were found a fcw^ years since about 300 yards from a largecairn, in the parish of Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, wliich popularlocal tradition affirms to mark the spot where Macbeth fell by thehand of the Thane of Fife. One of these is figured here on a smallscale. Its dimensions, however, are abundantly sufficient to admit of itsencircling the head, and both ends terminate in broad flattened plates,probably designed to rest on the features occur in those of a laterdate and much more ornamental char-acter, some of which are referred to ina future chapter. With this class alsomay be noted, among the relics belongingto the period in the same collection, anannulus of bronze, hollowed on the underside, measuring two and three-fourths inches in greatest diameter;and several bronze rings
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