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for the most part are in a better state of preservation than thoseof the lake dwelling at a. In some piles which I had drawnup from a depth of six feet, I remarked that they had beenhewn with sharp cutting instruments, from which it appearsthat this settlement belongs to the bronze age. In fact, aftersearching in vain for a length of time for bronze implements,I succeeded in finding three bronze celts, of which two were ofthe flat kind and the other had shaft flanges; and also a clothes-pin. Besides these, I got up from a depth of six feet fourobjects of iron; viz., 1 knife, 2 arrow-heads, 1 fragment of afish-hook, also a mealing-stone and fragment of pottery. Thegreater part of the settlement is covered deeply with mud, sothat it is difficult to examine it.
‘ The pottery is for the most part ill-burnt, and the clay hasbeen mixed with coarse quartzose sand; most of the vessels areornamented in a similar way to those from the other settlement,and in neither case has the potter’s wheel been made use of. Itis a singular fact, though the quantity of mud renders it diffi-cult to ascertain this positively, that the bottom is regularlycovered over with beams. Split pieces of oak, 2^ inches thick,9| inches broad, and 3 feet long, are frequently met with : theyhave in the middle a hole about six inches in diameter, throughwhich a pile has been driven in the lake bottom to hold thewood firm. The piles and beams lying about on the bottomare charred. The only other objects I have found showingtraces of workmanship are a piece of stag’s horn, some flint-flakes, &c. No actual stone implements have been met with.’