Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS 1882 All rights reserved. PREFACE. In publishing this work few prefatory remarks arerequired, beyond an explanation of the circumstanceswhich led to its assuming the present form. Theprimary object contemplated was to place beforegeneral readers a record of some remarkable dis-coveries recently made in the south-west of Scotland,in a department of Archaeology hitherto little known,and of which carefully prepared reports have alreadyappeared in the second
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS 1882 All rights reserved. PREFACE. In publishing this work few prefatory remarks arerequired, beyond an explanation of the circumstanceswhich led to its assuming the present form. Theprimary object contemplated was to place beforegeneral readers a record of some remarkable dis-coveries recently made in the south-west of Scotland,in a department of Archaeology hitherto little known,and of which carefully prepared reports have alreadyappeared in the second and third volumes of theCollections of the Ayrshire and WigtownshireArchaeological Association. As it was at the instigation of R. W. Cochran-Patrick, Esq., , that the explorations which ledto these discoveries were originally undertaken, so itwas also with him that the proposal to issue thesereports in a handy volume originated. It occurred,however, to me, that, considering how little had beenknown of Scottish Lake-Dwellings in general, andthat even this little was only accessible to the mera- b VI PREFAC
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