Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . t tobe a salt of copper. EXCAVATION OF A CRANNOG AT BUSTON. 233 Half of a tiny yellow bead, of a vitreous substance, onlyts of an inch in diameter. A round object, of the size of a small marble, made ofvitreous paste, variegated with blue and white, but withoutany aperture. Another small flattened object, about the size of a shil-ling, made of a white compact vitreous substance. It is verysmooth, rounded on one side, but flattened on the like a drop of a semi-liquid
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . t tobe a salt of copper. EXCAVATION OF A CRANNOG AT BUSTON. 233 Half of a tiny yellow bead, of a vitreous substance, onlyts of an inch in diameter. A round object, of the size of a small marble, made ofvitreous paste, variegated with blue and white, but withoutany aperture. Another small flattened object, about the size of a shil-ling, made of a white compact vitreous substance. It is verysmooth, rounded on one side, but flattened on the like a drop of a semi-liquid that had fallen on asmooth floor. In the York Museum, case C, amongst someother Eoman antiquities I observed several similar articles,which are referred to in the Handbook as roundlets ofcoloured glass, probably to set in brooches, from the railwayexcavations, 1874-75. One or two little round bits of a dark slag. 4. Glass.—Three fragments of thick bright-green glass,all irregularly shaped. 5. Leather.—Several strips and chippings of very thinleather. 6. Pottery.—A small fragment of Samian ware, only about. Fig. 250.—Pottery (J). 234 ANCIENT SCOTTISH LAJKE-DWELLINGS. a square inch, with the glaze nearly worn off, but quite un-mistakeable in its character. Fig. 250 represents a fragment of a small dish with itsoutline. This vessel was made of a hard tinkling ware, blackexternally, and of a dull white inside, and measured 3A inchesacross its mouth and 3 inches in depth.
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