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horn being used as the handle and the brow-tine as the pick. One 
point in connection with these picks is interesting. Where the 
horn has shown a tendency to split, a slight notch has been sawn 
at right angles to and at the apex of the crack, thus preventing its 
further progress. There are also other objects of bone and horn of 
a less definite character. 
A few examples of a rude type of pottery were unearthed, but 
these were usually fragmentary, and were with difficulty pieced 
together. Mr. Boynton, however, has some fairly perfect specimens 
from this locality. 
Another item which may be of interest was the finding of a 
piece of ironstone which had been burnt. This was covered by a 
fine red powder, and had evidently been used by the painted 
beauty of the period. 
The accumulations of bones under and around the pile structures 
were enormous. These of course represented the waste from the 
meals of the dwellers. An examination of the bones shows that 
the animals were chiefly the horse, ass, ox, pig, sheep, goat, deer, 
dog or wolf, fox, beaver, perhaps otter, with geese and other birds. 
The oxen were of two kinds, Bos longifrons (the Celtic ox) and 
Bos primigenius (the Urus of Cesar). Human bones were also 
met with, but these were not common, 
