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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: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 34.—View of the Trench on the North side. which being caught as it were by the upright piles, were pre-vented from falling outwards into the trench. Conterminouswith the mortised beams, which were scarcely a foot underthe surface, there was a rude and much decayed platform ofrough planks and saplings resting on transverse beams of disco\t:tiy of a crannog at lochlee, 73 split oak-trees. One of these transverse beams wliicli Imeasured was 14; feet long and 8 inches broad, and fora few inches at each extremity was not split, so that theportion thus left acted as a catch (for the planks above it),like the flange on the wheel of a railway wagon. Diggingunderneath this platform, we passed through a compact massof clay, stones, beams of soft wood, and ultimately brush-wood, underneath which, being on a level with the drain, wecould not farther explore, owing to the oozing up of water.
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Fig. 35.—Arrangement of Mortised Beams at north-east corner, i We then commenced digging a few feet to the west ofthe centre of the mound, and soon cleared a trench from 3 to4 feet deep, about a couple of yards broad, and directedalmost due north and south. About 25 feet from the outertrench, measuring northwards, and 53 feet in the oppositedirection, we came upon the south edge of a smooth pave-ment neatly constructed of flat stones. Judging from ashes, * Before this sketch was taken some of the horizontal beams wereremoved. 74 ANCIENT SCOTTISH LAKK-DWELLINGS. charcoal, and small bits of burnt bones which were hereobserved, that this pavement was a fireplace, we thought itbetter in the meantime to leave it intact; so we formedanother trench at a width of 8 to 10 feet, at right angles tothe former, and just touching the southern edge of the pave-ment, which was continued eastwards till it touched the

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