. Archæology and false antiquities. Figs. 12 and 13. P^orgeries from the Kesslerloch Cave Mr. Merks report, calling in question their then both specimens have been proved to beforgeries, as Professor L. Lindenschmit has shown thatthey were coarse copies of two designs of Leutemannwhich appeared as illustrations in a small popular bookpublished in 1868, under the title of Thiergcerten undMenagerien mit ihren Ins as sen?- THE BREONIO CONTROVERSY Early in 1885 Professor Pigorini described and figuredin the BiUlettino di Paletnologia Italiana^ a large triangu-larly shaped flint
. Archæology and false antiquities. Figs. 12 and 13. P^orgeries from the Kesslerloch Cave Mr. Merks report, calling in question their then both specimens have been proved to beforgeries, as Professor L. Lindenschmit has shown thatthey were coarse copies of two designs of Leutemannwhich appeared as illustrations in a small popular bookpublished in 1868, under the title of Thiergcerten undMenagerien mit ihren Ins as sen?- THE BREONIO CONTROVERSY Early in 1885 Professor Pigorini described and figuredin the BiUlettino di Paletnologia Italiana^ a large triangu-larly shaped flint arrow-head, with a comparatively smalltang. This object (Fig. 14) was found in a cave in themountainous district of Breonio, some ten miles to thenorth of Verona. It measures about 10 inches in length, 1 LHo77ime, 1885, p. 520. ^ Vol. xi. p. ?^?:^^ 1885, and Plate IV. CONTINENTAL FORGERIES 57 and weighs over 3ilbs. (i 7i kil.). As such an object couldnot have been used as a weapon, Pigorini conjecturedthat it might have some re
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