Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Volume 42, PT. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...its way into the British Museum with the rest of the collection of the Due de Blacas. d Gozzadini, Di un scpolcreto, etc. tav. viii. Giani, op. cit. e Luigi Tonini, Di alquanti oggetti Umbri od Etruschi, nella moggior parte in bronzo, trovati di recente in una villa del Riminese, p. 8. Annuario scientifico ed industrial Italiano, di Grispigni e Trevellini. Anno iii. Paleoetnologia. 'Op. cit. p. 30, fig. 38. - 0/). cit. tav. iii. 3. Other objects in bronze have been discovered in the necropolis of the Pascolare of Castel Gandolfo; but these having been lost, and no figures of them having been presented by Visconti in his plates, we are unable to present figures of them to our readers. But we may record certain small wheels mentioned by Visconti in page 26 of his memoir; and which appear in his sketch of the restored sepulchre. Visconti believes them to represent the wheels of a car or wagon, which from their size were not capable of being put originally in our sepulchres. For our own part we think it as well to state that it is not possible to determine their use, adding that one of us has been in correspondence with Professor Strobelc on the subject of similar objects found in the terremare of Emilia belonging to the bronze epoch."d It has been suggested that the objects in question were used for ornaments for the hair.e Wheels of this description are met with habitually in the terremare of Italy. But the fact that Gozzadini has not found any in the necropolis of Villanova must not be passed over in silence. To judge with greater exactness of the bronze objects discovered in it, the necropolis of Pascolare must be associated partly with the terremare of the bronze epoch, and partly with the necropoli of Villanova and Golasecca, which, as has been ...