Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . tiquities of Scotland, by Grose,vol. i. p. 146. Friars Carse, in Nithsdale. Here was a cell dependent on the rich abbey of Melrose,which, at the Eeformation, was granted by the Commendatorto the Laird of Elliesland, a cadet of the Kirkpatricks ofCloseburne. From whom it passed to the Maxwells of Tin-wald, and from them to the Barncleugh family, also cadetsof the Lords of Maxwell. From whom it went to theEiddells, of Glenriddell, the present possessors. The oldrefectory, or dinin
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . tiquities of Scotland, by Grose,vol. i. p. 146. Friars Carse, in Nithsdale. Here was a cell dependent on the rich abbey of Melrose,which, at the Eeformation, was granted by the Commendatorto the Laird of Elliesland, a cadet of the Kirkpatricks ofCloseburne. From whom it passed to the Maxwells of Tin-wald, and from them to the Barncleugh family, also cadetsof the Lords of Maxwell. From whom it went to theEiddells, of Glenriddell, the present possessors. The oldrefectory, or dining-room, had walls 8 feet thick, and thechimney was 12 feet wide. This old building having becomeruinous, was pulled down in 1773, to make w^ay for thepresent house. Near the house was the Lough, which was the fish-pondof the friary. In the middle of which is a very curiousartificial island, founded upon large piles and planks of oak,where the monks lodged their valuable effects when theEnglish made an inroad into Strathnith. From the above quotation it would appear that this 156 ANCIENT SCOTTISH structure has not ceased to be an island by becoming sub-merged, like most of the other lake-dwellings hithertonoticed. The surface of the log pavement is at presentabout 18 inches above the water-level, so that, before therecent drainage, it would be 6 inches below it, but, origin-ally, it must have been 3 or 4 feet above the ordinary levelof the loch. Hence, on thesupposition that no great al-teration was made on the lake ? ^jmKjt^ ^1 area by former cuttings, the ^BSm I^P maximum amount of subsid- Ip^l^ ^ ^^^^^ would not be more than 5 —About 60 yards from the island, while makingthe cut for drainage, a canoewas found, deeply imbeddedin the mud (about 4 feet).It now lies in Dr. Griersonsmuseum at Thornhill, but ithas become so shrivelled anddistorted that it would bedifficult to recognise it as adug-out canoe. From description of it,shortly a
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