A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . has been occupied during the Stone andBronze jjeriods, the later settlement is further out in the water thanthe earlier ; examples of this occur at Moringen and Gerlatingen inthe Lake of Bienne, and at Auvernier, Cortaillod, Bevaix, and Esta-vayer in the Lake of Neuchatel. The antiquities are found in LAKE-DWELLINGS 137! a bLackish stratum of organic debris at the base of the piles ; andthe charred condition of many of them, as well as of the pilesthemselves, shows that the majority of the lake
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . has been occupied during the Stone andBronze jjeriods, the later settlement is further out in the water thanthe earlier ; examples of this occur at Moringen and Gerlatingen inthe Lake of Bienne, and at Auvernier, Cortaillod, Bevaix, and Esta-vayer in the Lake of Neuchatel. The antiquities are found in LAKE-DWELLINGS 137! a bLackish stratum of organic debris at the base of the piles ; andthe charred condition of many of them, as well as of the pilesthemselves, shows that the majority of the lake-villages were atone time or another destroyed by fire. It is not necessary tosuppose that these conflagrations were other than accidental, forall that rose above the level of the water was of an extremelyinflammable nature, and the flames, when once fairly kindled,could hardly have been extinguished by the primitive applianceswhich the inhabitants had at their command. ^ Many of the Swiss lakes must have been simply fringed withpile-villages, for even now the settlements known to archaeologists.
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