120 A SUPPOSED NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT.
There are also saw-cuts on some of the bones that could
scarcely have been made with a stone-saw.
Mr. Read, F.S.A., of the British Museum, tells me that he
considers such antler-tools as figs. 9, 10 and 11 to belong to the
Bronze Age or later. 
It must not be supposed that the Fascine system of
Lacustrine Dwellings is older than the Pile system because of
its simpler and more primitive method. The results of Conti-
nental researches show that both systems are distributed
throughout the different ages, but that the Fascine system
occurs generally in the shallow, mossy lakes. This no doubt
accounts for the prevalence of the Fascine system in the British
Isles.
Fig. 17. Photograph of sawn surfaces of Red Deer's Antlers.
Professor Amrein has discovered at Lake Baldegg, a
Fascine dwelling constructed on the ruined foundations of
a Pile dwelling. See Dr. Keller's Lake Dwellings, p. 318.
The following note by Messikommer may also be of
interest :—
" Man darf mit Bestimmtheit annehmen, dass alle jene Niederlassungen in
welchen gespaltenes Eichenholz in grosserer Menge zum Vorschein kommt,
auch das Metall in einfacher (Kupfer) oder zusammen-gesetzer Form (Bronze)
gekannt haben."
" In those remains where split oak-wood occurs in any great quantity,
one may with certainty conclude that bronze or copper was known."