. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 376 PALAFITTES, OR LACUSTKIAN CONSTRUCTIONS serving, probably, as amiilett?. Clasps, on tbe other hand, which are so abun- dant in pnbscquent epochs, are as yet unknown at our stations of bronze. Pins for the hair are very numerous. The lake of Neuchatel has itself fur- nished many hundreds, and among them all we have not yet met with two which were exactly alike, and could therefore be referred to the same mould. Most of them are adorned w
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 376 PALAFITTES, OR LACUSTKIAN CONSTRUCTIONS serving, probably, as amiilett?. Clasps, on tbe other hand, which are so abun- dant in pnbscquent epochs, are as yet unknown at our stations of bronze. Pins for the hair are very numerous. The lake of Neuchatel has itself fur- nished many hundreds, and among them all we have not yet met with two which were exactly alike, and could therefore be referred to the same mould. Most of them are adorned with designs more or less complex, few being wholly destitute of ornamentation. In the number several types may be distinguished which are characterized by the form of the head, as may be judged of by a com- parison of the annexed figures. Some have a round head (Figs. 52 and 53) and are sometimes of considerable size. We possess one 34 centimetres in length, while M. Troyon mentions specimens of 49 and even 57 centimetres. The head is usually open-worked with circular holes, into which were fitted studs of the metal in relief, perhaps also small plates of some other metal. In this case the pin traverses the head and is often detached from it. At other times the head is massive and without ornament, after the model of the pins of bone in the age of stone. Pins with a flat button are not less abundant, this button being some- times very small, (Fig. 54,) sometimes of considerable size, (Fig. 55^ it is in some a more enlargement of the stem, (Fig. 5G,) and is occasionally repeated, so as to furnish pins with two and three buttons, (Fig. 57.) With these pins for the hair we would not confound certain very simple stylets, whose flattened extremity is merely convoluted, (Fig. 58.)* It is probable that these objects served for some special use. We are induced to think so from the fact that we have found them at different times combined with small rings of bronze similar to those of wh
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