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Rh the Archæologia for 1869 contains a full account by Professor Pigorini and myself of the numerous vases and other objects found with these hut-urns. The pottery is peculiarly dark and compact, and with it were found several bronze knives. The presence of some fragments of iron, however, appears to show that the huts belong quite to the close of the Bronze Age, or rather to the commencement of that of Iron. The following figure will give an idea of the urns themselves, as well as of the houses they were intended to represent.

These cases are not isolated. In the year 1837 Dr Beyer found near Parchim a somewhat similar hut-urn in a tumulus, which, both from its form and as containing bronze, is considered by Dr Lisch as certainly belonging to the Bronze Age.

In 1849 an urn, evidently intended to represent a house with a tall straw roof, was found in a tumulus at Aschersleben. From its colour and material Dr Lisch refers this urn also to the Bronze Age.

The Museum at Munich contains a very interesting piece of pottery (fig. 80), apparently intended to represent a Lake-hamlet comprising seven small round huts. The huts are arranged in three rows of three each, thus forming three sides of a square. The fourth side is closed by a wall, in the centre of which is an opening leading into a porch, which is represented as being thatched. The platform on which the huts