FIGS.
1. Part of the stone axe of Montezuma II., Ambras Museum, Vienna
(J. Evans, _The Ancient Bronze Implements of Great Britain
and Ireland_, 1881, Fig. 180, p. 148).
2. Socket of a bronze spear-head, Co. Galway, Ireland (Evans,
_loc. cit._, Fig. 393, p. 320).
3. Socket of a bronze spear-head, Ireland (Evans, _loc. cit._,
Fig. 402, p. 326).
4. Bronze palstave (socketed celt), Co. Meath, Ireland (Evans,
_loc. cit._, Fig. 172, p. 140).
5. Bronze vessel, Lake of Bourget (F. Keller, _The Lake
Dwellings of Switzerland_, 2nd ed., 1878, Plate CLIX., Fig. 1).
6. Pattern on an ebony comb, Assyria (G. Perrot and C. Chipiez,
_History of Art in Chaldæa and Assyria_, ii., 1884, Fig. 227,
p. 350).
7. Pattern on a sculptured stone cornice (Perrot and Chipiez,
_History of Ancient Egyptian Art_, ii., 1883, Fig. 288,
p. 361, from Prisse d’Avennes).
8. Pattern on a perforated bone needle, Tumulus, Holyhead (W.
Owen Stanley, _Arch, Journ._, xxxiii., 1876, pp. 94, 133).
9. Back of a bronze knife, Estavayer (Keller, _loc. cit._, Plate
XCVI., Fig. 12).
10. Bronze palstave, near Kingston-on-Thames (Evans, _loc. cit._,
Fig. 141, p. 125).
11. Bronze palstave, Fornham, near Bury St. Edmunds (Evans, _loc.
cit._, Fig. 133, p. 122).
_a._ “Angular Meander,” Wolvesey Castle, Winchester, _temp._
Stephen (_Archæologia_, xvi., 1812, p. 361, Plate LXII., Fig.
3).
_b._ Norman capital, “sections of branches” or billet ends,
Peterborough Cathedral (_Archæologia_, xii., 1796, Plate
XXXI., Fig. 4, p. 168).
_c._ Hut-urn, Etruscan, Monte Albano (_Museo Kircheriano, Rome_),
_d-f._ Skeuomorphs of the gable (_Household Furniture_).
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