Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . Fig. 48.—Hammer-Stone (A). Fig 4S.—Hammer-Stone (|). the crannog, but more abundantly in the deeper layers of asmall circular area round the hearths, corresponding to whatI have on a former occasion designated the relic-bed. Astypical specimens of such implements I have collected noless than nineteen. Of these, fourteen are of a somewhatelongated oval shape, and were used at one or both vary considerably in size, the major diameter of thelargest measuring 6 inches, and
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . Fig. 48.—Hammer-Stone (A). Fig 4S.—Hammer-Stone (|). the crannog, but more abundantly in the deeper layers of asmall circular area round the hearths, corresponding to whatI have on a former occasion designated the relic-bed. Astypical specimens of such implements I have collected noless than nineteen. Of these, fourteen are of a somewhatelongated oval shape, and were used at one or both vary considerably in size, the major diameter of thelargest measuring 6 inches, and the rest graduating down-wards to about the half of this. Two are flat and circular,and show friction-markings all round; while other threeshow signs of having been used on their flat surfaces one represented in Fig. 48, with markings on its flat EXCAVATION OF A CRANNOG AT LOCHLEK. 103 sides, is divided into two portions, each of which was pickedup separately, about a yard asunder, and found to fit would thus appear that it was broken while being usedon the crannog, and then pitched asi
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