Note 33 — Chapter VI · Industry, Commerce, and Social Organization; Fights, Wounds and Trepanation.

This superstition appears to have long survived even in historic times, and a Gallic chain is quoted33 on which hung a round piece of skull with three holes in it. In. deed, these ornaments were so much sought after that counterfeits of them were made; at least, we cannot in any other way account for the occurrence of objects exactly resembling round pieces of human crania, but in reality made out of pieces of a stag’s antler found in the Baumes-Chaudes Cave.