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tions made at Robenhausen, there cannot be the slightest doubt 
that the manner of life was the same in the other lake-settle- 
ments. 
Herr Messikomer has discovered in the peat of Robenhausen, 
horizontal beds from two to ten inches thick, composed entirely 
of the excrements of cows, pigs, sheep, and goats, together with 
the remains of the litter they had used. The litter for the cows 
consisted chiefly of straw and rushes ; that for the smaller 
animals was of sprigs of fir and twigs of brushwood. 
At Wangen some straw was found arranged in such a parallel 
manner as to induce the belief that it had formed part of the 
thatch of one of the huts. 
Tablets 27 and 28. — Spindle-whorls of clay. Bodensee. 
Tablets 29 and 30. — Spindle-whorls of clay. Wangen. 
Tablet 3 1 . — Haematite, probably used for paint. Robenhausen. 
Tablet 32. — Wooden float for a fishing line or net. Roben- 
hausen. 
Tablets i and 5.— Portions of fishing nets. Robenhausen. 
Tablet 6. — Hanks of spun flax. Robenhausen. 
Tablets 7 to 76 j Specimens of weavmg and plattmg. 
Tablets 17 to 20. — Pointed bone tools and chisels. Moossee- 
Tablets 21 to 23. — Pointed bone tools and chisels. Roben- 
hausen. 
Upon Tablet 23 is a small bone implement pointed at both 
ends. Robenhausen. 
Mr. Lee gives figures of two similar implements of bone 
pointed at both ends, found at Wangen. One of these is 
exactly like the specimen exhibited ; the other, however, is 
grooved round the middle where the line would have been 
attached. This kind of bone implement no doubt was used in 
fishing : it was completely covered by the bait, and when swal- 
lowed it could not easily have been got rid of by the fish. 
Ducks are caught on the Untersee at the present time with 
similar implements. Indeed the pointed bone acts like the 
needle we use in "sniggling" eels; a very similar contrivance 
for fishing is employed by the aborigines of Australia. 
B 28. 
dorf. 
B 29. 
Tablet 20. — Pointed bone tools and chisels. Robenhausen. 
