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The Monteoru cemetery No. 4 is slightly later and cemetery No. 1 belongs to the phase l i b of Monteoru (finds in the museum of the Archaeological Institute in Bucharest; excavations by I. Nestor and E. Zaharia).
6,10-14), bone copies of IJnetician loop-headed pins, copper spirals (pi. 6,6), armlets (pi. 6, 7), beakers (pi. 6,15) and other finds (Brondsted, 1938,1, fig. 256). com Download Date | 11/15/12 12:08 PM 50 PART ONE: STUDY IN CHRONOLOGY FIG. 16. Grave inventory from the barrow at Brusy near the mouth of the Vistula. 1, dagger; 2-5, fragments of neck-rings and bracelets; 6, amber bead; 7, flat axe. ; 1, 7, 1/2; 2-6, 2/3. After Sturms, 1936. Many of these amber pendants have come to light in Juodkrante, western Lithuania (pi.
3, 15, 16) and jugs (pi. 3, 14). From the western Carpathian region earrings and many other copper objects spread northward to Poland, up to the Baltic Sea, and to the western Ukraine. Large earrings appeared in a hoard discovered in 1854 in Siedice (Zedlitz) near Lubin in Silesia (Seger, 1926a). Here the earrings (fig. 11, 4, 5) were associated with a flanged axe (fig. 11, 2), conical ornamental plate (fig. 11, 6), spirals of copper wire or plate (fig. 11, 8-13), amber beads (fig. 11, 7), an ornate belt plate of copper (fig.