. Archæology and false antiquities. 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. ?^?:^^ 188
. Archæology and false antiquities. 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 religious signification. He alsoannounced in the same article (as well as previously atthe R. Accad. dei Lincei, i8th January, 1885) the dis-covery by Stefano de Stefani, in the same district, of anumber of other flint implements unlike any hitherto /D-. Fig. 14. Flint Arrow-head from a Grotto near Verona (^) found in Europe, except one or two objects from Russia(Fig. 20), which were figured in a book by Count another article of more recent date^ the professor ex-pressed the opinion that these implements {selci di Hpi ^ Bull, xii., 1886, p. 79. 58 ARCHEOLOGY AND FALSE ANTIQUITIES strani) were manufactured as late as the beginning of theChristian era. About the same time, and in the same journal,^ Chiericipublished an article on a particular form of stone axe{ascia lunatd), said to have been found at Cumarola,near Modena, having a semicircular cutting-edge and aprojecting handle (Fig. 15), which he maintained to bean Italian, instead of an American type, as was formerlysupposed. He supported this view by a reference to
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