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546. Gold pin, the upper part of which is decorated with jjairs of raisecl rings alternating with ribbed beadings. The middle is pierced and decorated with a palm-branch pattern. To either side of the hole is soldered a plain ring. Immediately below the hole is a cross-hatched pattern and four incised rings, with a zigzag band underneath them. The lower part of the pin is plain.
548. Gold pin, the upper part of which consists of a series of circular ribbed bead ings ; in the middle, which expands, is a hole, immediately below which are two rings and a band of zigzags.
549. Gold pin. The lower part is plain, but about one-third of the way up spreads into a series of twisted strands, arranged four on each side of a rod of square section. At the top these pass through a white porcelain bead. Their upper part above the bead (which probably imitated a pomegranate) is broken away. At the lower end of the twisted strands a ring, formed of a flat band bordered with plain wires, is lashed to the pin by a coiled gold wire soldered together.
550. Gold pin, composed of a gold rod split up half way from the bottom into a series of twisted wires arranged so as to give the appearance of plaited work. These are again united at the head, where they pass through a ribbed porcelain half-bead, and separate at the top into two leaves curling in opposite directions. At the point where the twisted wires terminate is attached a ring formed of a spiral wire of three turns, which is twisted round the pin and soldered to it. Below this are three incised rings ; underneath these a row of zigzags.
552. Gold pin, consisting of {a) a sevcn-petalled flower, the top of which has apparently been inlaid with coloured paste ; {b) ten plain bead-like bands alternating with double ribbed rings, and forming the upper part of the pin ; (c) a spiral of wire soldered round the middle of the pin and securing a grooved ring of gold, only a small part of which remains ; {d) immediately below the last, an incised spiral ring terminating in a zigzag band. The lower part of the ring is plain.
553. Gold pin, richly decorated. At the top is attached a movable head in the form of a sevcn-petalled flower, slightly drooping downwards. The part of the pin beneath this is decorated with ribbed and grooved rings. About midway down
is attached, by means of a spirally twisted wire, a double-grooved ring. Below this is a scries of ribbed bands, finished off underneath with a zigzag pattern.
556. Gold pin formed of a solid rod of gold ; the head is in the form of a biconical bead striated vertically. Below the bead the shaft is in the form of a series of alternate striated beads and double rings terminating in the middle in a pierced bead. Underneath this is a scries of four incised rings with a band of zigzags below them.
562. Gold pin, consisting of a long rod decorated at the top with a striated bead of blue porcelain capped with a disk of gold fastened in position by a V-shaped wire formed by the splitting of the rod. Underneath the bead are placed at intervals si.x gold disks with notched edges. The portion of the rod between the disks is covered with a spirally twisted wire. About the middle of the pin is attached a ring formed of wire twisted into a triple spiral, and bound round the rod. Below this wire the rod is decorated with three incised rings.
563. Electrum pin, nearly complete in two fragments. The upper part is ornamented with a series of projecting rings incised on the outer edge. The lower part, which is broken away at the hole pierced in the middle of the pin, is plain. 565. Plain gold pin with flattened hook at the liead.
578. Gold necklace consisting of fifteen glandular beads with four project- ing ribs running along them. They are hollow and pierced ; {b) fifteen circular ribbed beads (small) ; (c) thirty-one small plain rounded beads, placed one on either side of the previous beads ; {d) a round gold setting with six double spirals running round it. Each of the flat surfaces is bordered by three plain wires and a twisted wire ; the middle is open and contains the remains of a paste filling. Pierced. A wire ring is soldered round each opening. The present arrangement of the beads is arbitrary and uncertain.
579. Necklace reconstructed out of various gold beads, viz thirty-eight small rounded beads ; (2) sixteen cylinders formed of gold wire twisted spirally and soldered together ; (3) seven beads in the form of cowrie shells ; (4) two oblong four-sided beads ; (5) circular gold box-setting, decorated round the edge with a row of globules between two rows of twisted wires. The flat sides are decorated near the circumference with four rows of wires alternately twisted and plain. The centre is left open and shows a yellow porcelain filling.
