Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . lar founda-tion of stones; 26 feet farther on an oval lying acrossthe line, 15 by 13 feet; 8 feet farther on, an 11-foot ring;59 feet beyond that, a small circular patch of stones; andanother, 45 feet farther on, with a low grassy cairn 10 feetin diameter, 36 feet off at the west. Sixty-two feet south-east from the last foundation in the straight row is a circularturf and stone ring, 10| feet thick, 3| high, and 48 feet indiameter over all, with the entrance-gap at the south-wes
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . lar founda-tion of stones; 26 feet farther on an oval lying acrossthe line, 15 by 13 feet; 8 feet farther on, an 11-foot ring;59 feet beyond that, a small circular patch of stones; andanother, 45 feet farther on, with a low grassy cairn 10 feetin diameter, 36 feet off at the west. Sixty-two feet south-east from the last foundation in the straight row is a circularturf and stone ring, 10| feet thick, 3| high, and 48 feet indiameter over all, with the entrance-gap at the the 6-inch Ordnance Map it is marked site of cairn,but I have never found any one who had heard of a cairnthere. Part of the enclosed space is somewhat stony, andthe position of the entrance-gap is peculiar, all the others Ihave seen or heard of having it at the south-east. Manyyears ago, the late tenant, Mr. Mllwraith of Kilfillan, askedme to go and see this ring, because he thought it had beensurrounded by two oval rows of earth-fast stones. I wentand made careful measurements, with this result, that the.
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