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A SUPPOSED KEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT. 



There are also saw-cuts on some of the bones that could 

 scarcely have been made with a stone-saw. 



Mr. Read, F.S.A., of the British Museum, tells me that he 

 considers such antler-tools as figs. 9, 10 and 11 to belong to the 

 Bronze Age or later. 



It must not be supposed that the Fascine system of 

 Lacustrine Dwellings is older than the Pile system because of 

 its simpler and more primitive method. The results of Conti- 

 nental researches show that both systems are distributed 

 throughout the different ages, but that the Fascine system 

 occurs generally in the shallow, mossy lakes. This no doubt 

 accounts for the prevalence of the Fascine system in tne British 

 Isles. 



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Photograph of sawn surfaces of Red Deer's Antlers. 



Professor Amrein has discovered at Lake Baldegg, a 

 Fascine dwelling constructed on the ruined foundations of 

 a Pile dwelling. See Dr. Keller's Lake Dwellings, p 318. 



The following note by Messikommer may also be of 

 interest : — 



" Mau darf mit Bestimmtheit annehmen, dassallejene Niederlassungen in 

 welchen gespaltenes Eichenholz in grosserer Mange zum Vorschein kommt, 

 auch das Metall in einfacher (Kupfer) oder zusammen-gesetzer Form (Bronze) 

 gekannt haben." 



"In those remains where spht oak-wood occurs in any great quantity, 

 .one may with certainty conclude that bronze or copper was known." 



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