Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . bstance. It is verysmooth, rounded on one side, but flattened on the like a drop of a semi-liciuid that had fallen on asmooth floor. In the York Museum, case C, amongst someother Ptoman 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,al
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . bstance. It is verysmooth, rounded on one side, but flattened on the like a drop of a semi-liciuid that had fallen on asmooth floor. In the York Museum, case C, amongst someother Ptoman 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 LAKE-DWELLINGS. a square inch, with the glaze nearly worn off, but quite un-niistakeable 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 3 J inchesacross its mouth and 3 inches in Fig. -251.—Pottery (-}-). Portion of a large vessel made of coarse materials, havinga short spout just below its everted rim (Fig. 251). Theoutside is very black, and the inside has a reddish portion, apparently of the same vessel, shows thestriation of the potters wheel. Fig. 252 represents a curious little knob of of the pottery found here had any appearance of aglaze. 7. Portion of a small object like a button, made of a softchalky substance, is represented in Fig. 253. It shows somelines as an ornament on its upper surface. EXCAVATION OF A CRANXOG AT BUSTON. 235 8. Crucibles.—A small conical crucible, made of hardenedclay arranged in two thin layers, tlie external of which lookscoarser than the other. It has a triangularly-shaped mouth,and at one of its apices there is a slight indentation for facili-
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