Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . Fig. 29.—Stone Implement (|). them being from Wigtownshire. 1 Proceedings Soc. Antiq. Scot. vol. ii., new series, pp. 127, 128. HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES. 57 On a later occasion, June 15th, 1881, Mr. Wilson, writingon the same subject, says:— In the volume of the Pro-ceedings for 1879-80, at pages 127-129, I have describedseven of these stones, and have stated that only one speci-men has been reported from any other part of Scotland. Inow direct attention to eleven more


Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . Fig. 29.—Stone Implement (|). them being from Wigtownshire. 1 Proceedings Soc. Antiq. Scot. vol. ii., new series, pp. 127, 128. HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES. 57 On a later occasion, June 15th, 1881, Mr. Wilson, writingon the same subject, says:— In the volume of the Pro-ceedings for 1879-80, at pages 127-129, I have describedseven of these stones, and have stated that only one speci-men has been reported from any other part of Scotland. Inow direct attention to eleven more from Glenluce andStony Kirk added to the Museum, making eighteen fromWigtownshire. l (See notice of another, found on the cran-nog in Lochspouts, at page 173.) One of the crannogs referred to by Mr. Wilson, viz., thatin Loch Inch-Cryndil, or Black Loch, was about the sametime subjected to a careful examination, a report of whichwas drawn up by Charles E. Dalrymple, Esq., Scot.(Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. vol. ix. p. 388), from which I quote thefollowing illustrative extracts :— The island is oval in s


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