[Footnote 1: _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, New Series
(1899), vol. i. p. 150.]

[Illustration: DETAILS OF THE DISCOVERIES IN THE LAKE DWELLINGS.

A vase of black earthenware.
Two pieces of horn, one showing attempts to cut with some
instrument. The lower piece has been neatly cut at both ends.
A whorl stone for weaving.
A human femur (thigh bone). The ends show signs of having
been gnawed by wolves.
Ornaments made from deer's horn, found with the skeleton of a woman.
Fragment of a large earthenware jar or urn.
A sketch plan of the excavations (_from the Proceedings of the
Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society_).
]

Another interesting discovery was the evidence of different attempts to
cut some pieces of deer's horn. The shallow grooves were probably made by
rubbing with a rib bone or some other sharp edge and sand and water. A
small black vase unornamented but in perfect condition was dug up near the
remains of the young woman. There were numerous skulls of the prehistoric
ox or bos longifrons and also of the straight-horned sheep. A piece of the
antlers of a great palmated deer now extinct tends to place the
discoveries at an early time, but until more evidence is forthcoming the
period to which these lake-dwellers belong must remain uncertain.

A list of the bones discovered includes the following:--