The pottery was made of a blackish paste mixed with coarse grains of sand or quartz, and a few dishes were ornamented with patterns of zig-zag scratches separated by parallel lines (=Fig. 60=, No. 13). Some had handles, and others small ears or perforated knobs, two of which had portions of string still attached to them (=Figs. 55= and =56=). [Illustration: =Fig. 55.=--An Earthenware Vessel, with portions of string attached to handles (½).] Among other relics from this station were:--Two daggers of bronze, one still retaining a couple of rivets for fixing the handle (=Fig. 60=, No. 1); two bronze pins (Nos. 2 and 4); a wooden anchor 3¼ feet long, terminating at one end with two hooks and at the other with a hole as if for attaching a rope; a canoe 6 feet long, 3¼ feet wide, and about a foot in depth (=Fig. 57=); near the canoe lay a bronze drill (=Fig. 60=, No. 5); and a neat spindle-whorl of baked clay 1½ inch in diameter (No. 22). Among the more recent finds are numerous flint arrow-heads and scrapers (No. 8); a spindle-whorl of soapstone, _pietra ollare_ (No. 16); a wooden dish and perforated floats for nets; earthenware dishes of great variety (No. 12); and 16 conical beads of vitreous paste, which, when strung together, formed a handsome necklace (No. 9); and a large cake of burnt clay perforated in the middle (No. 18). [Illustration: =Fig. 56.=--Earthenware Vessel (½).] [Illustration: =Fig. 57.=--Portion of Canoe.] [Illustration: =Fig. 58.=--Wooden Wheel.] But the most remarkable objects were two wooden wheels. One (=Fig. 58=) was made of three boards kept together with two crossbars dovetailed into the boards, and in the centre was a round hole having on each side of it a semilunar space. This wheel, which was not quite circular, had an average diameter of 2 feet. The other wheel (=Fig. 59=) was differently constructed. It had six spokes: two of them were made of the same piece of wood as the nave, and their extremities formed part of the rim; the other four, two on each side, connected the fellies with the central piece. The fellies were neatly mortised together and the workmanship was very good. These wheels were so far decayed that they could not be preserved, but casts of them were taken, which may now be seen in the Museum at Turin. [Illustration: =Fig. 59.=--Wooden Wheel.] TORBIERA DI BORGO-TICINO, ETC. Analogous remains to those in Mercurago have been found in several other localities, especially in the districts called Pennino near Borgo-Ticino, and the moor of Gagnano; but the objects were dispersed or thrown away. A stone celt from this place is figured by Gastaldi (=Fig. 60=, No. 19).