THE LAKE DWELLINGS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOODOF ESTAYAYER AND LA CRASAZ.

The following account of researches made in this district byMM. Beat de Yevey and Henri Rey has been drawn up by M.A. Morlot.

Since the first discovery, in January 1854, of lake dwellings atMeilen in the lake of Zurich, researches on this subject havebeen carried on in Switzerland to a great extent. The lake ofBienne was examined and worked by M. Miiller of Nidau , andby Colonel Schwab of Bienne , especially the latter gentleman,who afterwards came into possession of M. Muller’s collection.The lake of Neuchatel was explored towards its southern extre-mity, in the spring of 1854, by M. Louis Rochat, and his reportis published in the present volume. And about the same time(May 22, 1854) the pile buildings of Morges were discovered,and the greater part of the lake of Geneva was explored by theeditor.

Colonel Schwab, having called attention to the piles whichare found in front of Estavayer, on the eastern bank of thelake of Neuchatel, MM. de Yevey and Rey, who live at Esta-vayer, set to work to explore first this locality and afterwardsthe neighbouring district. They used merely a pair of pincersfixed at the end of a long pole (see page 9), and as yet haveonly collected what specimens were visible on the surface oithe lake bottom. These gentlemen have in this manner suc-ceeded in obtaining a very interesting collection of specimens,the greater part of which were obtained amongst the piles ofthe bronze age in front of Estavayer. This locality will bear acomparison as to its bronze treasures with the Steinbergbetween Nidau and Bienne , and with the lake dwelling ofMorges which has been examined by M. Forel. ColonelSchwab obtained at the Steinberg 500 bronze hairpins; hutthey were not all found on the surface, for he has trenched orexcavated the bottom of the lake at this locality. At the latedwelling of Morges forty bronze celts, thirteen bronze knives,and many other specimens were found, all on the surface; and