Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . Fig. 36.—Mortised Beam with portion of an upright (scale § inch to the foot). platform already described. A circular trench was thenmade round this pavement, at a breadth of about 4 feet,leaving it, with its superincumbent soil, standing in thecentre. We had thus a considerable space cleared out at auniform level, with a small portion of the pavement visible,and an oval-shaped mass of soil about 4 feet in diameter above the rest of it. In the courseof these excavations we found
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . Fig. 36.—Mortised Beam with portion of an upright (scale § inch to the foot). platform already described. A circular trench was thenmade round this pavement, at a breadth of about 4 feet,leaving it, with its superincumbent soil, standing in thecentre. We had thus a considerable space cleared out at auniform level, with a small portion of the pavement visible,and an oval-shaped mass of soil about 4 feet in diameter above the rest of it. In the courseof these excavations we found threeupper quern stones, portions of othertwo, a wooden vessel in two frag-ments, a large quartz pebble (), with markings as if made by Fig. Pebble (*). ft hammer Qn itg surfacej portion of a pointed horn (Fig. 91), some bones, one or two hammer-stones, and a boars EXCAVATION OF A CRANNOG AT LOCHLEE. 75 Upon careful inspection we then discovered immediatelyabove the pavement, at a height of 2| feet, and rather lessthan a foot from the surface of the mound, another pavementsimilar to the former. These pavements rested on layers ofclay which extended several feet beyond them, and gradu-ally thinned out towards the edge. On a level with thelower pavement we found the remains of a series of massivestakes with square-cut ends, which appeared to surround were very much decayed, and it was difficult to ascer-tain their original number, but seven were noted, which
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