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Tablet 5, (b). — Small lake-dwelling wheat {T. vulg. aniiq.), 
Moosseedorf. 
Tablet 6. — A mass of wheat taken from a barn at Winterborne 
Monkton, Wilts, which was destroyed by fire in April, 1 864. This 
is exhibited to show how closely the condition and appearance 
of the grains correspond with those from the pfahlbauten. 
Of the cereals from the lake-dwellings, the small lake-dwelling 
barley {^Hordeum hexastichum sanctum), and the small lake-dwell- 
ing wheat {Triticum vulgare antiquorum), are the most ancient. 
Next to these come the beardless compact wheat {Triticum vul- 
gare compactum niuticum), and the larger six-rowed barley {Hor- 
deum hexastichum densuiii). 
It is believed that the lake-dwellers prepared and sowed their 
fields in the spring, and not in the autumn. 
It is also probable that the corn was not cut off just under the 
ears (a mode represented on some Italian coins), but that the 
straw was taken with it ; otherwise there would not have been the 
seeds of so many weeds with the corn. 
B 26. 
Upon tablets 7 and 8, are specimens of bread (burnt) from 
the stations of Robenhausen and Wangen. 
When the Aa canal (Robenhausen) was deepened and altered, 
the quantity of bread found was considerable. The entire 
weight was about 81b., which would probably correspond with 
newly-baked bread weighing about 401b. 
This bread should more correctly be called cake, for no 
leaven appears to have been used. The cakes have been met 
with both round and flat, from one inch to fifteen lines thick, 
and with a diameter of four or five inches. 
The bread hitherto found has been made of wheat or millet. 
Barley bread has not been met with ; this grain was probably 
eaten parched or roasted. 
B 26. 
Weeds of the Cornfield. 
Tablet 4 d. — Seeds of white goosefoot {Chenopodium alburn).^ 
These seeds of weeds appear to have been equally charred with 
the grains of corn, and probably were mixed with them.. One of 
the most interesting facts connected with this subject is the 
presence of two weeds of the cornfield, which are not indi- 
