Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . ed stone discs mighthave been used as mirrors, see Notes by Mr. Joseph Anderson, Antiq. Scot. vol. x. p. 717. EXCAVATION OF A CRANNOG AT LOCHSPOUTS. 173 both surfaces, but has no glossy appearance. It measures4^ inches in diameter, and has a uniform thickness of aquarter of an inch (Fig. 1G6). The other, which appears to have been a completecircle, was broken into several portions, two of which havebeen recovered. These do not fitinto each other, but they are sosimi
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . ed stone discs mighthave been used as mirrors, see Notes by Mr. Joseph Anderson, Antiq. Scot. vol. x. p. 717. EXCAVATION OF A CRANNOG AT LOCHSPOUTS. 173 both surfaces, but has no glossy appearance. It measures4^ inches in diameter, and has a uniform thickness of aquarter of an inch (Fig. 1G6). The other, which appears to have been a completecircle, was broken into several portions, two of which havebeen recovered. These do not fitinto each other, but they are sosimilar in composition, thickness,polish, and size of curvature, thatthere can be no doubt they be-longed to the same disc. The arcof the larger fragment, which isvery nearly a semicircle, indicatesthat the diameter of the completedcircle would be 4| inches. It ismade of a hard, dark, compactstone, highly polished on botlisides, and neatly cut at the circum-ference. It is a quarter of an inch pjg of Polishedthick at the edge, but becomes Disc(i). gradually a shade thicker towards the centre (Fig. 167)..
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