Figure 56.—Ivory ear ornaments (British Mus.): a (no number), two balls (1, 1) connected mesially and above to suspensory lug (2); greatest height, 23 mm.; greatest width, 29 mm.; greatest thickness, 19 mm.; fine human-hair braid tied around constricted neck of lug, looped into a small circle (3) about 9 mm. in diameter, crossed and seized together for a short distance (4), and then looped into a wider circle (5) about 24 mm. in diameter. b (+6009), similar to a, but upper mesial circumference of balls not so rounded; height, 23 mm.; width, 33 mm.; thickness, 20 mm.; holes bored through from two sides of lug neck into central pit and suspensory braid passed through holes across floor of pit; intermediate crossing of loops (a,4) has loosened. c (no number), body (1, 1) of ornament similar to b but suspensory lug has no circumferential lip but is divided by a mesial notch into two sharp ridges (2, 2) perforated for suspensory braid; height, 18 mm.; width, 25 mm.; thickness, 13 mm.; suspensory braid (3) shown crossed (4) but seizing fiber has disappeared; ivory much darker than a and b. d, side view of lugs of a and b, showing constricted neck (6), circumferential lip (7) and central pit (8). e, upper surface of lugs of a and b, showing circular form of flat surface and shallow central pit (8). f, upper surface of c showing suspensory lug divided into two transverse ridges (2, 2) by mesial transverse notch and horizontal holes through middle of ridges.