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times. The manufacture of flint implements appeared to have been an important 

 industry, extending all over Belgium. 



The sites of Neolithic occupation are situated near streams, on the tops of hills, 

 and promontories of high ground. Villages have heen found consisting of 

 symmetrically grouped huts excavated in the soil. They contain no trace of 

 metals, only tools of polished flint and fragments of baked pottery made on the 

 wheel, and with linear ornamentation. 



E«cent researches have shown the existence of Dolmen monuments, which 

 was till lately denied. The existence of a real Bronze Age in Belgium has also 

 been disputed, but finds of bronze articles in tumuli associated with incineration 

 and burials are becoming more numerous. 



The beginning of the Iron Age is undoubtedly represented in Belgium in 

 various burial-grounds and tumuli, which have recently yielded new and fruitful 

 rase arches. 



8. Observations on the Antiquity of Man iiilBelgixmi. 

 By Professor Max Lohest. 



9. Exploration of British Cajnps and a Long Barrow near JRushmore. 

 By General Pitt-Rivers, F.E.S. 



10. On a New Craniometer. By General Pitt-Rivers, F.B.S. 



11. On the Long Barroiv Skeletons from JRnshmore. 

 By J. G. G ARSON, ILD. 



12. Report of the Committee on the Glastonbury Exploration. 

 See Reports, p. 431. 



13. On Ancient Bone Skates. By Robert Munro, 3/.Z). 



The author commenced by observing that the contradictory opinions enun- 

 ciated by archaeologists in regard to the period when bone skates were used 

 justified this attempt to define their position in early European civilisation with 

 greater precision than had hitherto been done. Bone skates had been found in 

 large numbers in the Terp-monnds of Holland, and among the debris of the 

 ancient town of Birka, on the island of Bjorko, in Lake Malar. Sporadic examples 

 were to be seen in various museums throughout Northern Europe, said to have 

 been found in grave-mounds, lake-dwellings, canal-diggings, &c. The late 

 Dr. Lindenschmit promulgated the opinion that these objects belonged to the 

 Stone Age, and this opinion had been subsequently adopted by various archse- 

 olo^ists. In this paper Dr. Munro has collected and criticised the details of all 

 the hitherto-recorded discoveries, and comes to the conclusion that there is no 

 trustworthy evidence in support of the theory that bone skates were ever used 

 in prehistoric times in Europe. According to the author, they would appear to 

 have been invented by the early Teutonic races who inhabited the shores of the 

 Baltic, and to have been introduced into Britain by the early immigrants, who 

 hailed probably from among the superfluous inhabitants of the Terpen. This 

 opinion is supported by their geographical distribution, which embraced Holland, 

 Denmark, the lower portions of Scandinavia, North Germany, and a small district 



