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cramps, remnants of which still remained in place. M. de Fellenberg ascribes 

 it to the pro- Roman iron period. 



FIG. 162. Boat. Vingelz. 



Fig. 162 is a reduced copy of the representation of the second boat brought 

 to light by him.* He thus describes it: 



" When I was engaged in excavating the large canoe at Vingelz, one of 

 the visitors informed me that the stem of a tree, apparently cut into a conical 

 form, was projecting a little from the bottom of the lake; it lay about thirty 

 paces on one side of the great canoe. When we had secured the large boat, I 

 had this conical stem uncovered, and found, to my no small delight, that we had 

 unexpectedly fallen in with a second canoe, for the conical piece of wood soon 

 appeared as if cut off smoothly above, and after a few minutes' work we brought 

 to light the complete sides of a small but still perfect ' Einbaum-' or 'dug-out' 

 canoe. I had the whole canoe carefully uncovered, and there were so many 

 peculiarities in it that it may be considered as one of the most interesting boats 

 of its kind. It lay with its massive conical end towards the lake, tolerably 

 parallel with the great canoe, and, like it, nearly a hundred feet distant from 

 the ancient bank ; that is, from the vineyards below Vingelz. The massive 

 conical end was the highest part, and the canoe sank gradually into the mud, so 

 that the other end was buried two feet deep. This canoe had one remarkable 

 peculiarity : at the hinder part it is cut off quite square, both sides and bottom, 

 and about eight inches from the end a board about an inch thick, and worked 

 with the hatchet, is fastened in on the bottom and between the sides as a kind of 

 makeshift. It seems from this, either that the front portion of this primitive 

 boat had, by some accident, been destroyed, and that the canoe had been made 

 again available by the insertion of this board instead of the stern part, or that 

 the stern portion of the boat, in its usual rounded form, had never existed, and 

 that this singular arrangement was the intentional termination of the boat. In 



* Keller: Lake Dwellings; Vol. II, Plate T,XXXVII, Figs. 1 and 2. 



