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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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thediagram. On the other side (Fig. 150) is a similar diagram,with this difference, that between the points of commence-ment of the spiral grooves there is a space left which isoccupied by a small circular groove surrounding the centraldepression or point. This figure is surmounted and over-lapped by two convoluted and symmetrical grooves meetingeach other in an elevated arch, with a small depression in itscentre. The relic was found on the west side of the crannog,about 4 feet deep, and near the line of the horizontal raisedbeams. 2. Fringe-like Objects.—Another object which has excitedconsiderable curiosity is an apparatus made like a fringe bysimply plaiting together at one end the long stems of a kindof moss (Fig. 151). Portions of similar articles were foundin three different parts of the crannog, and all deeply buried. 134 ANCIENT SCOTTISH LAKE-DWELLINGS. The one figured here, and the most neatly formed, was foundin the relic-bed ; another about a couple of yards north of the
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Fig. 149.—Carved Wood (\). fireplace, and others at the south-west side, a little externalto the area of the log pavement. In this latter place a large EXCAVATION OF A CRANNOG AT LOCHLEE. 135 quantity was found, but although the evidence of havingbeen plaited at one end was quite distinct, the stems of the

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