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planzen,' as also of the weeds accompanying them, proves that these 

 men had at one time or other some direct or indirect communication 

 with Mediterranean regions. (See Prof. Heer in Keller's Lake 

 Dwellings, trans. Lee, p. 342 seqq.) The textile flax-fabrics so pro- 

 minent in every series from the Swiss lake-dwellings, even from 

 the very early one of Schaffis, are as completely wanting in British 

 stone-age barrows as the cerealia. 



A second point of equally striking contrast is furnished to us 

 by the great inferiority of all British pottery of the stone- and 

 bone-periods to that at least of the later stone age in Switzerland. 

 It is true that from such a very early lake-dwelling as that of 

 Schaffis, pottery of the most primitive kind possible, imperfectly 

 burnt, coarse alike in composition and contour, may, as the series 

 in the University Museum obtained through the kindness of Herr 

 E. von Fellenberg and the exertions of the Rev. H. B. George 

 shows, be obtained; and that speaking generally all the pottery 

 of the Swiss stone age is inferior in shape, paste, and size to that 

 of the bronze age. Still with my recollection of the best specimens 

 of British long-barrow pottery, such as those referred to pp. 536-537 

 supra, as found by myself and others, I needed when at Merges 

 a very definite assurance from that entirely indisputable authority 

 Professor F. A. Forel, to make me believe, as I do, that certain 

 pottery of a much higher degree of excellence had really belonged 

 to the stone age. 



Thirdly, even in the very early lake-dwelling of Schaffis, barbed 

 and tanged arrow-heads have been found, as indeed also in Danish 

 and Breton stone-age interments ; whilst our long barrows have, 

 as Dr. Thurnam remarked, never furnished us with any arrow-heads 

 perfected beyond the leaf-shape. 



Fourthly, the practice of boring, however roughly and by what- 

 ever process, the stone axe for the reception of the haft was not 

 unknown even to the lake-dwellers of Schaffis (see Herr E. v. 

 Fellenberg's Bericht liber die Pfahlbauten des Bielersees, 1875, 

 p. 78), whilst, as Mr. John Evans (Ancient Stone Implements of 

 Great Britain, p. 49) has remarked, the stone axes of this period, 

 at least in Britain, were rarely perforated. 



The similarly all but, if not entirely, complete absence of nephrit- 

 and jadeit-implements from our British prehistoric series consti- 

 tutes a fifth point of contrast between them and those procured 

 from the Swiss lakes ; and to the ' Etlmographisch-archseologischer 

 Bedeutung' (to use the words of Prof. H. Fischer in his model 



