Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . Figs. 5 anil 6.—Bronze Pots toiuid in Loch of Fig. 7. —Found in Loch of Forfar (J). The Isle of the Loch of Banchory. Before the recent drainage of the Loch of Leys—or theLoch of Banchory, as it was called of old—the loch coveredabout 140 acres, but, at some earlier date, had been four orfive times as large. It had one small island, long known tobe artificial, oval in shape, measuring nearly 200 feet inlength by about 100 in breadth, elevated about 10 feet abovethe bo
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . Figs. 5 anil 6.—Bronze Pots toiuid in Loch of Fig. 7. —Found in Loch of Forfar (J). The Isle of the Loch of Banchory. Before the recent drainage of the Loch of Leys—or theLoch of Banchory, as it was called of old—the loch coveredabout 140 acres, but, at some earlier date, had been four orfive times as large. It had one small island, long known tobe artificial, oval in shape, measuring nearly 200 feet inlength by about 100 in breadth, elevated about 10 feet abovethe bottom of the loch, and distant about 100 yards from the 26 ANCIENT SCOTTISH LAKE-DWELLINCxS. nearest point of the mainland. What was discovered as tothe structure of this islet will be best given in the words ofthe gentleman, of whose estate it is a part, Sir James HornBurnett, of Crathes. In a communication which he made tothis Society in January 1852, and which is printed in the firstpart of our Proceedings, he quotes from his diary of the 23dJuly 1850, as follows :— Digging at the Loch of Leys out two oak trees laid along the bottom of the lake
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