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Title: Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Munro, Robert, 1835-1920
Subjects: Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings -- Scotland Prehistoric peoples -- Scotland Scotland -- Antiquities
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Fig. 8.—Isle of tlie Loch of Banchory. (General view of site.) bronze vessels were sent to our Museum by Sir James Bur-nett, and are now on the table (Figs. 3 to 6). The generalappearance of the island as it now is, since the bottom of thelake was turned into corn land, is represented by Fig. 8. Thesurface of the crannog was occupied by a strong substantial HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES. 27 building (Fig. 9). This has latterly been known by the nameof the Castle of Leys, and tradition, or conjecture, speaksof it as a fortalice, from which the Wauchopes were drivenduring the Braces wars, adding that it was the seat of theBurnetts until the middle of the sixteenth century, whenthey built the present Castle of Crathes. A grant of KingEobert I. to the ancestors of the Burnetts includes lacum deBanchory cum insula ejusdem. The island again appears inrecord in the year 1619, and 1654 and 1664, under the name
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Fig. 9.—Isle of the Loch of Banchory. (Surface of Crannog.) of The Isle of the Loch of Banchory. Banchory itself, Imay add, is a place of very ancient note. Here was thegrave of one of the earliest of our Christian missionaries, St.Ternan, archbishop of the Picts, as he is called in the oldService-Books of the Church, which add that he receivedbaptism from the hands of St. Palladius. Along with St.Ternans Head and St. Ternans Bell, called the Eonnecht,there was preserved at Banchory, until the Reformation, astill more precious relic, one of four volumes of the Gospelwhich had belonged to him, with its case of metal wroughtwith silver and gold.—(Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. vol. vi. p. 126.) 28 ANCIENT SCOTTISH LAKE-DWELLINGS. The following extracts regarding artificial islands inci-dentally observed in various parts of Scotland, brought tolight chiefly in the course of drainage operations in searchof marl or for the recovery of boggy land, may be now readwith interest before resuming t

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