Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . withtwo long stones, leaning against each other lengthways, likethe roof of a house, but most of them formed by placing twolong narrow stones (fragments of the rock of the district,which breaks off easily in that form) parallel with eachother, leaving a space between, which was paved with small IIISTOKKAL AND ] lESCKllTlVH NOTICE? oO stones and formed a hearth. Large quantities of bones ofanimals, mostly more or less burnt, and, whether Hat orround bones, frequently split, were
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . withtwo long stones, leaning against each other lengthways, likethe roof of a house, but most of them formed by placing twolong narrow stones (fragments of the rock of the district,which breaks off easily in that form) parallel with eachother, leaving a space between, which was paved with small IIISTOKKAL AND ] lESCKllTlVH NOTICE? oO stones and formed a hearth. Large quantities of bones ofanimals, mostly more or less burnt, and, whether Hat orround bones, frequently split, were found mixed with theashes and charcoal which lay in and around these hearths,in some places extending over wide spaces, which weremarked, also, by masses of burnt yellow clay. At different levels, in diflerent parts of the mound, werefound the following objects,^ the description of ^\ hich I takefrom Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. vol. ix. p. 381 :— Double-margined comb of bone, imperfect, 2f inchesacross, formed of separate pieces, enclosed between two trans-verse slips of bone, fastened with three iron rivets, and. Fig. :3U.—Bone Coiiili ([). ornamented with a central row of dots and circles, and twosimilar rows at the side of the cross piece, having a runningscroll pattern connecting them. A zigzag ornament formsa band across the end (Fig. 30). A flat loop of bronze, IJ inch in diameter. Part of the rim of a large vessel of cast bronze, 3 inchesin length. Portion of an armlet, of greenish glass, with a blue andwhite twisted cable ornament running round it. 1 These relics were sent as donations to the Museum of the Society ofAntiquaries of Scotland, by the Eight Hon. the Earl of Stair, in 1872. 60 ANCIKXT HCKTTISH LAKK-DWELLINGS. C(.)ppLr coin iiiucli bodle of Charles ii. Ckannog at Tolsta, Lewis (1874J. The following account of a crannog is from a letter byPeter Liddle, Esq., to the secretary of the Society of Anti-quaries of Scotland {Proceedings, vol. x. p. 74
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