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in breadth, formed by the accumulated débris washed in by 
a number of streams from the adjacent hills. In earlier 
times it is probable that it was a lake, and, indeed, in winter 
portions of it still become submerged. Almost in its very 
centre, and only separated from the hotels and pleasure- 
grounds of Ilidze by one of the meandering streams which 
traverse it before they unite to form the Bosna, there is a 
cultivated field slightly more elevated than the surrounding 
land. This field was selected by the Government as the site 
for a model dairy; and when, in 1893, excavations were 
begun for the foundations of the requisite buildings, it was 
ascertained that the whole of the raised area (some 5 acres) 
was due to the accumulated débris of a population who lived 
in the Stone Age. At the time of my visit (1894) several 
portions of the field were occupied by these completed dairy 
buildings, but the greater part of it was simply arable 
land. 
During the excavations, which were superintended by 
the late Mr Radimsky, an enormous quantity of pottery, 
stone implements, and other débris of human occupancy was. 
collected and preserved in the Museum at Sarajevo. 
Impressed with the importance of these and other discoveries. 
found in the early Iron-age cemeteries of Glasinac and 
Jezerine, the Government resolved to convene, at Sarajevo, 
a special Congress of Archeologists, consisting of some 
twenty-five gentlemen from various countries in Europe, to 
discuss the archeological value of the antiquities thus brought. 
to light, and, if possible, to determine their relative position 
in early European civilisation. Among the gentlemen 
invited I had the honour to be one, and it was through the 
facilities thus afforded to me that I was enabled to write my 
book on Bosnia, the main object of which is to give an 
account of the remarkable archeological remains submitted 
to this Congress. 
A perpendicular section through the Butmir deposits, 
specially prepared for the benefit of the members of 
Congress, showed the following beds from above downwards. 
First, 12 to 16 inches of a clayey soil; secondly, a blackish 
streaky mixture of clay, mould, charcoal, etc., arranged in 
more or less parallelstrata. The depth of this heterogeneous. 
