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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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of Crathes. In a communication which he made tothis Society in January 1852, and which is printed in the firstpart of our Proceedings, he quotes from his diary of the 23dJuly 1850, as follows :— Digging at the Loch of Leys renewed.Took out two oak trees laid along the bottom of the lake,one 5 feet in circumference and 9 feet long; the other shorter.It is plain that the foundation of the island has been of oakand birch trees laid alternately, and filled up with earth andstones. The bark was quite fresh on the trees. The islandis surrounded by oak piles, which now project 2 or 3 feetabove ground. They have evidently been driven in to pro-tect the island from the action of water. Below the sur-face were found the bones and antlers of a red deer of greatsize, kitchen vessels of bronze, a mill-stone (taking the placeof the quern in the Irish crannogs), a small canoe, and arude, flat-bottomed boat about 9 feet long, made, as in Ire-land and Switzerland, from one piece of oak. Some of the
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oi 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 HISTOFJCAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES. 27 biiiiaing (Fig. 9). This lias 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 tlio Bruces 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 KingPtobert I. to the ancestors of the Burnetts includes Icicum deBanchory cum insula ejusdcm. The island again appears inrecord in the vear 1G19, and 1654 and 1664, under the name

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