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58 however, has carefully recorded not only when, but at what depth, every object, even every bit of pottery, was found, and the result is most interesting and instructive. He has also given average sections of the camps and the ditches, showing the position of the relics projected into them.

We know as yet very little about the architecture of the Bronze Age. Rougemont considers that the Round towers belong to that period, but I know no sufficient reason for this opinion. In the next chapter I shall give my reasons for referring some at least of our so-called Druidical remains to that period, and many of the Swiss lake-villages certainly belong to it. These remains, indeed, give us little information as to the kind of houses then in use. Certain "hut-urns," however, or urns in the form of huts, which have been discovered in Italy and Germany, appear to belong to the close of the Bronze Age. The Italian "hut-urns" were discovered in 1817 at Albano, near Rome, under an undisturbed layer of peperino or consolidated volcanic ash, and belong, therefore, to a time when the volcanoes near Rome were still in a state of activity. The volume of