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STRUCTURES ANALOGOUS TO TERREMARE 467 reconstructed portion was a pile-structure or an ordinary land- habitation. The industrial remains found during the excava- tions prove conclusively that the pile-habitation of Ripac existed from the end of the Neolithic period, that it was continuously occupied during the Bronze and early Iron Ages till taken possession of by the Romans, and that in the Middle Ages the larger island became a fortified castle or burg. The objects collected are of iron, copper, bronze, silver, lead, stone, clay, glass, bone, wood, and vegetable fibre. The organic remains, mostly charred, are represented by bones, seeds, fruits, straw, and the droppings of animals. Among this large assortment of relics are numerous objects char- acteristic not only of the Stone and Bronze Ages, but of the well-defined periods of Hallstatt and La Tene. Mr Radimsky states that indications of analogous pile- structures are to be seen at several other localities on the river Una, viz., Globulic, Ribic, Kralje, and Brekovica. In the vicinity of Ripac is the famous necropolis of Jezerine, as well as a number of hill-forts, all of which were explored and described by Radimsky. A few of the characteristic relics from this pile-structure are figured on Plate LXX. No. i is a steel for striking sparks from a piece of flint, which, till the invention of the lucifer match, was the common method among working men in that country of lighting a tobacco pipe. The antiquity of this and of another specimen which turned up is not beyond doubt, although in the necropolis of Jezerine a similar steel was found in a grave, associated with fibulae and amber beads (Band iii., S. 72, fig- 83) ; No. 2 is a small sickle of La Tene type ; No. 7 a Roman axe-head ; Nos. 8, 9, and 10 are fibulae of the Hallstatt period; No. 11 represents a Roman fibula; No. 12 is a spiral arm-band of the Bronze Age ; No. 6 is a spoiled casting of a socketed celt of bronze; Nos. 14 and 15 are stone moulds for a similar celt and a dagger ; No. 16 is a clay bobbin ; Nos. 17 and 1 8 are rude figurines in the form of men and some kind of animal ; No. 13 is a Roman weight of bronze ; Nos. 19 and 20 are clay weights of various shapes ; No. 22 represents a group of five spindle- whorls ornamented; No. 24 is a perforated