19 
21 to 25. Fragments of handmade pottery, the unornamented spe¬ 
cimens much in character like Nos. 37 to 40, Case Q, and 
Nos. 64 to 67, Case R. Nos. 23, 24, and 25, are rudely, but 
considerably ornamented. 
26. Stone used for pounding corn. See Nos. 19, 20, Case V, and 
fig. 29 on diagram. 
27. Grindstone for giving an edge to bone and other implements ; 
it has been used on both sides. 
28. Bread 
29. Barley 
30. Wheat 
31. Ear of Corn 
a From these carbonized specimens it seems that 
>the lake-dwellers of the stone period culti- 
I vated certain Cereals, and used them for food. 
32. Cultivated apple, sliced; probably had been dried and stored 
for winter consumption. 
33. Apple pips. 
34. Wild apples. 
35. Hazel nuts: one has been gnawed by a mouse ( ?) when in its 
fresh state. 
36. Plum or sloe stones: one gnawed as in No. 35. 
37. Fir seeds. ‘ 
38. Fir cone. 
39. Raspberry seeds. 
40. Strawberry seeds. 
41. Red stone. 
42. Float for fishing net, made of a piece of light wood. 
43. Fish scales. 
44. Clay ball, possibly used in spinning flax. 
45 to 47. Pieces of linen ( ?) cloth woven in the loom. Nos. 46 
and 47 show the fibres of plants interlacing the material, 
arising from the growth of the peat above them, and fur¬ 
nishing an argument in favour of the genuine nature of the 
specimens. 
48. Piece of plaited (or perhaps of knotted) linen ( ?) cloth. At 
Waugen, also on the Lake of Constance, one of the most 
ancient of the lake-dwellings, plaited cloth, supposed to have 
been made of flax, has been discovered. 
49. Seed pods of flax plant. 
The specimens of flax and of woven cloth were obtained by M. 
Messikomer at Robenhausen, who, from the nature of the objects 
discovered, imagines that the spot examined must have been the 
site of a hut used by the lake-dwellers for the preparation and the 
weaving of flax. The mud was removed from an area of several 
square yards in extent, and the objects in question were then dis¬ 
covered at a depth of from eight to nine feet in the underlying 
peat. Stalks of flax, even with the seed pods attached, were found, 
as well as dressed (?) or heckled (?) flax (lin prepare), skeins of 
linen yarn ( ?) both single and doubled (des echeveaux de lin a 
