Professor Boyd Dawkins, under the heading _Habitations in Britain in the Bronze Age_, writes as follows:--"Sometimes, for the sake of protection, houses were built upon piles driven into a morass or bottom of a lake, as for example in Barton Mere (explored by Rev. Harry Jones in 1867,--_Suffolk Inst. of Archæology and Natural History_, June 1869), near Bury St. Edmunds, where bronze spear-heads have been discovered, one 18 inches long, in and around piles and large blocks of stone, as in some of the lakes in Switzerland. Along with them were vast quantities of the broken bones of the stag, roe, wild boar, and hare, to which must also be added the urus, an animal proved to be wild by its large bones, with strongly-marked ridges for the attachment of muscles. The inhabitants also fed upon domestic animals--the horse, short-horned ox, and domestic hog, and in all probability the dog, the bones of the last-named animal being in the same fractured state as those of the rest. Fragments of pottery were also found. The accumulation may be inferred to belong to the late rather than the early Bronze Age, from the discovery of a socketed spear-head. This discovery is of considerable zoological value, since it proves that the urus was living in Britain in a wild state as late as the Bronze Age. It must, however, have been very rare, since this is the only case of its occurrence at this period in Britain with which I am acquainted."--(_Early Man in Britain_, p. 352.) _Professor T. Rupert Jones on English Lake-Dwellings._ In 1878, Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., communicated to _Nature_ a short notice on "English Lake-Dwellings and Pile Structures," in which, after drawing attention to the previously published articles of General Lane Fox and Sir Charles Bunbury, he writes as follows:-- "Since writing the above I have been informed that Mr. W. M. Wylie, F.S.A., referred to this fact in '_Archæologia_,' vol. xxxviii. in a note to his excellent memoir on lake-dwellings. I can add, however, that remains of _Cervus elaphus_ (red deer), _C. dama?_ (fallow-deer), _Ovis_ (sheep), _Bos longifrons_ (small ox), _Sus scrofa_ (hog), and _Canis_ (dog), were found here, according to information given me by the late C. B. Rose, F.G.S., of Swaffham, who also stated in a letter dated August 11th, 1856, that in adjoining meres, or sites of ancient meres, as at Saham, Towey, Carbrook, Old Buckenham, and Hargham, cervine remains have been met with; thus at Saham and Towey _Cervus elaphus_ (red deer), at Buckenham _Bos_ (ox) and _Cervus capreolus_ (roebuck); at Hargham _Cervus tarandas_ (reindeer). "The occurrence of flint implements and flakes in great numbers on the site of a drained lake between Sandhurst and Frimley, described by Captain C. Cooper King in the _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, January 1873, p. 365, etc., points also in all probability to some kind of lake-dwelling, though timbers were not discovered.