 ... from one to five feet, and must also have projected from four to six feet above the water level, which cannot have been very different from what it is at present. They must, therefore, have had a length of from fifteen to thirty feet, and they were...  The Natural History Review - Page 311862Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1865 - 560 pages
...must, therefore, have had a length of from fifteen to thirty feet, and they were from three to nine inches in diameter. The pointed extremity which entered...to those shown by lead pencils well and badly cut. To drag the piles to the lake, and fix them firmly, must have required much labor, especially when... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1865 - 556 pages
...must, therefore, have had a length of from fifteen to thirty feet, and they were from three to nine inches in diameter. The pointed extremity which entered...ingeniously compared to those shown by lead pencils DESCRIPTION OF THE REMAINS AT WAUWYL. 129 well and badly cut. To drag the piles to the lake, and fix... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 pages
...way in which the piles have been pointed. ' They (the piles) must have had a length of from 15 to 30 feet, and they were from 3 to 9 inches in diameter....between the two have been ingeniously compared to those shewn by lead pencils well and badly cut. Moreover, a cut by a stone axe is necessarily more or less... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...way in which the piles have been pointed. ' They (the piles) must have had a length of from 15 to 30 feet, and they were from 3 to 9 inches in diameter....between the two have been ingeniously compared to those shewn by lead pencils well and badly cut. Moreover, a cut by "a stone axe is necessarily more or less... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1872 - 702 pages
...must, therefore, have had a length of from fifteen to thirty feet, and they were from three to nine inches in diameter. The pointed extremity which entered...pointed, and the differences between the two have Fio. 163. been ingeniously compared to those shown by lead pencils well and badly cut. Moreover, a... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Antiquities - 1878 - 704 pages
...and they were from three to nine inches in diameter. The pointed extremity which entered into the mad still bears the marks of the fire and the rude cuts...to those shown by lead pencils well and badly cut. Moreover, a cut by a stone axe is necessarily more or less concave, whereas those made with metal are... | |
 | Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - Ireland - 1897 - 558 pages
...can be easily distinguished from those of the metallic period by examining the piles. In the former, "the pointed extremity, which entered into the mud,...metal axes, were much more regularly pointed, and the difference between the two haue been ingeniously compared to those shown by lead-pencils well and badly... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Antiquities - 1900 - 748 pages
...were from three to nine inches in diameter. The pointed extremity which entered into the mud stil] bears the marks of the fire and the rude cuts made...to those shown by lead pencils well and badly cut. Moreover, the cuts made by the ordinary Swiss (fig. 172) stone axe are more or less concave, whereas... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Archaeology - 1900 - 984 pages
...must, therefore, have had a length of from fifteen to thirty feet, and they were frc>m three to nine inches in diameter. The pointed extremity which entered...by the stone hatchets. The piles belonging to the Brotize period, being prepared with metal axes, were much more regularly pointed, and the differences... | |
 | American Society of Civil Engineers - Civil engineering - 1903 - 896 pages
...black disc. This is true, however, principally of the oldest, those of the Neolithic Age. The point which entered into the mud still bears the marks of the fire and of the stone hatchets, or later on, of the metal hatchets. The manner of driving to so great a depth... | |
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