BOATS. 105 



Bronze points, however, which may possibly have been the armatures of har- 

 poons and arrows for shooting fish have occurred, and I give illustrations of a few. 

 Figs. 157 and 158 show barbed points from Moringen, the one stemmed, the 

 other socketed.* Fig. 159 represents a socketed specimen from Peschiera,f and 

 Fig. 160 another one from the Roseninsel, in Lake Starnberg.J Yet the use 

 of bone and flint points may have long continued after the introduction of bronze. 



Fio. 167. Moringen. Fid. 108. Muriugon. Pio. 159. Peschiera. Fio. 100. Roseninsfil. 



FIGS. 157-160. Barbed bronze armatures. 



Boats. The possession of bronze hatchets enabled the lake-dwellers of this 

 period to produce better dug-outs than those made by their predecessors, who 

 were restricted to the use of stone implements. Many of the boats, however, 

 have been found under circumstances which render it difficult to determine their 

 antiquity, as in the case of those discovered in bronze-yielding pile-works inhab- 

 ited up to the time when iron was used. Such may be either of bronze or iron- 

 age origin. 



A curious boat was found in the settlement near Cudrefin, in the Lake of 

 Neuchatel. In the translation of Keller's work reference is made to the extent 

 of this station and its numerous piles, and it is further mentioned that " pottery 

 has been found here and a boat made out of a single stem." From this .scanty 

 information it is impossible to draw any conclusion as to the antiquity of the 

 last-named object. At any rate, I reproduce as Fig. 161 on the next page the 

 three views illustrating the appearance of this boat,|| which is certainly of a 

 remarkable form, and, being provided with a sort of handle at one end, reminds 



Keller: Lake Dwellings; Vol. II, Plate XLVII, Figs. 9 and IT. 



flbid. ; Vol. II, Plate CXIX, Pig. 2. 



t Ibid. ; Vol. II, Plate CLXXXI, Fig. 6. 



Ibid.; Vol. I, p. 462. 



|| Ibid. ; Vol. II, Plate LXXXVII, Figs. 3, 4, and 5. 



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