The Lake-Dwellings of Europe: Being the Rhind Lectures in Archæology for 1888Munro, Robert
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The Lake-Dwellings of Europe: Being the Rhind Lectures in Archæology for 1888
Munro, Robert
Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings -- Bibliography; Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings -- Europe
BIALKA (LUBLINER KR.).--In the moor of Bialka, formerly covered
with water, there is a small island about 100 paces in diameter, on
which tradition says there was once an enchanted castle. Professor
Joseph Przyborowski, of Warsaw, made some excavations on the island,
and found on the surface some tiles and modern implements, which so
far confirmed the tradition of the ancient castle; but upon digging
he came upon wooden piles at a depth of four feet. His excavations
extended some twenty feet long and nine feet wide, and in the whole
of this area he found numbers of piles, as well as cross-beams.
Associated with these wooden structures there was also a relic-bed,
entirely distinct from the superficial layer, on which he found two
well-formed flint arrow-heads, a portion of a perforated axe of
serpentine, some flint implements, and broken bones of edible animals.
If this site were properly investigated the author prognosticated
results of considerable scientific value. (B. 338.)
Professor Ossowski, in his "Carte Archéologique" (B. 361), gives the
following sites of lake-dwellings, none of which, however, have been
carefully investigated:--(1) _Warlubie_ (Kr. Swieć). This is a
vast peat deposit from which neolithic implements and staghorn hammers
have been extracted from time to time. It was visited by Ossowski in
the year 1878, who found some fragments of pottery and charcoal. But
these merely strengthened the suspicion that the antiquities were due
to Pfahlbauten. (2) Similar indications were found at _Kowalewo_,
in the district of Tornú. (3) At _Wabrzeźno_, in the district of
Chelmno, there is a small lake, in which were found a primitive vase,
a bronze fish-hook, a stone hammer, and an implement of staghorn. (4)
_Lankorsz_, district of Lubawa.
(D) EAST PRUSSIA AND LIVLAND.
In the eastern districts of Prussia lake-dwelling remains have been
discovered in the following places, which have been more or less
investigated and described in various archæological publications,
especially in the _Altpreussiche Monatsschrift_:--
ARYSSEE (KR. LÖTZEN).--_A. M._, vol. iv. p. 667; xii. p. 89;
xiv. p. 181. _Zeit. für Ethn._, vol. xix.,
_Verhand._, p. 491.
CZARNISEE (KR. LÖTZEN).--_A. M._, vol. xiv. p. 181; vol. xv. p. 481.
KOCKSEE (KR. RÖSSEL).--_A. M._, vol. xxii. p. 169;
_Zeit. für Ethn._, vol. xvi.,
_Verhand._, p. 560.
PROBCHENSEE (KR. RÖSSEL).--_A. M._, vol. xxii. p. 169
QUERTZ (KR. HEILSBERG).--_A. M._, vol. xxii. p. 169.
BONSLACK (KR. WEHLAU).--_A. M._, vol. xxii. p. 485.
TULEWOSEE (KR. LYCK).--_A. M._, vol. v. p. 750.
SZONTAGSEE (KR. LYCK).--_A. M._, vol. xxiv. p. 488.
KOWNATKENSEE (KR. NIEDENBURG).--_A. M._, vol. xxiv. pp. 168 and 496.
LONKORRECKERSEE (CULMERLANDE).--_A. M._, vol. x. p. 579.
GESERICHSEE--_Phy. Ok. Gesel._, 1874, _Verhand._, p. 14.
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