A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 133.—Socketed cliisel,Swiss lake-dwelling. A Flu. loL —Fish-hooks., Swiss hike-dwellings, -i fiint knives and saws, were also used, though more and morerarely as time went on. Stag-horn and bone were in less demand for tools than duringthe Stone age. but were still employed for various purposes, suchas making the side-pieces of horse-bits, for fish-spears, and barljedharpoon-heads. All kinds of things were made of wood, fromdug-out canoes, oars, house-doors, boxes, and yew bows, to dishes,
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 133.—Socketed cliisel,Swiss lake-dwelling. A Flu. loL —Fish-hooks., Swiss hike-dwellings, -i fiint knives and saws, were also used, though more and morerarely as time went on. Stag-horn and bone were in less demand for tools than duringthe Stone age. but were still employed for various purposes, suchas making the side-pieces of horse-bits, for fish-spears, and barljedharpoon-heads. All kinds of things were made of wood, fromdug-out canoes, oars, house-doors, boxes, and yew bows, to dishes,, and combs. Pottery was of two sorts : a rougher kind containing sand andgrit, and a ware of finer composition, sometimes of a dark greycolour, or blackened with graphite or charcoal. Pottery of thislatter class was even in tlie neolithic period, ornamented withdeeply incised designs inlaid with a white chalky substance,a circumstance -which, like the occurrence of the small idols atLaibach, suggests a cultural connection with the Eastern Medi- 140 DESCRIPTION OF CASE S terraneau. Th
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