Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . PLATE IV. /lfi%?iUu^ EXCAYATIOX OF A CRANNOG AT BUSTON. 239 those found on other Ayrshire deposits. But it is difficultto determine whether the differences in size depend on sex,or some other cause, such as cultivation, No goat bones have been found in connection with thislake-dwelling. 240 ANCIENT SCOTTISH LAKE-DWELLINGS. CHAPTER V. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE CLASSIFICATION, GEOGRAPHI-CAL DISTRIBUTION, STRUCTURE, AND AGE OF ANCIENTSCOTTISH LAKE-DWELLINGS. In the foregoing chap


Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . PLATE IV. /lfi%?iUu^ EXCAYATIOX OF A CRANNOG AT BUSTON. 239 those found on other Ayrshire deposits. But it is difficultto determine whether the differences in size depend on sex,or some other cause, such as cultivation, No goat bones have been found in connection with thislake-dwelling. 240 ANCIENT SCOTTISH LAKE-DWELLINGS. CHAPTER V. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE CLASSIFICATION, GEOGRAPHI-CAL DISTRIBUTION, STRUCTURE, AND AGE OF ANCIENTSCOTTISH LAKE-DWELLINGS. In the foregoing chapters I have recorded nearly all the factshitherto derived from the explorations of Scottish Lake-Dwellings, together with a few meagre notices of theirformer existence supplied by historical research. Notwith-standing the variety and number of objects found in theseremains, and the copiousness of details with which theinvestigations are described, it may still be doubted whetherthe time has arrived for applying to them the rigid principlesof induction, with the view of materially enlarging our know-ledge of the early inh


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