PEN-PITS. 



55 



FIG. 77. 



These cases are not isolated. FIG. 76. 



In the year 1837 Dr. Beyer found 



near Parchim a somewhat similar 



hut-urn in a tumulus, which, both 



from its form and as containing 



bronze, is considered by Dr. Lisch 



as certainly belonging to the 



Bronze Age.* 



In 1849 an urn, evidently in- 

 tended to represent a house with 



a tall straw roof, was found in Hut-urn. -Aibano. 



a tumulus at Aschersleben. From its colour and material 



Dr. Lisch refers this urn also to the Bronze Age. 



The Museum at Munich 

 contains a very interest- 

 ing piece of pottery (fig. 

 77), apparently intended 

 to represent a Lake- 

 hamlet comprising seven 

 small round huts. The 

 huts are arranged in 

 three rows of three each, 

 thus forming three sides 



Urn apparently representing a Lake-dwelling. Q ^ SQUare. The fourth 



side is closed by a wall, in the centre of which is an opening 

 leading into a porch, which is represented as being thatched. 

 The platform on which the huts stand is supported by four 

 columns represented as consisting of logs, lying one upon the 

 other. The roofs are unfortunately wanting. The sides are 

 ornamented with the double spiral so characteristic of the 

 Bronze Age. 



In North Germany and Denmark also urns have been 

 discovered somewhat resembling that in fig. 76. In these 

 * Ueber die Hausurnen. Schwerin, 1856. 



