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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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). (h) Articles made of Bronze or Brass.—Y\g. 175 representsa curiously-shaped ornament, reminding one of the head ofa bee. The parts on its posterior aspect, corresponding tothe two circular tuberosities in front, as seen in the drawing,are concave. Kcy.—T\\Q key which is here figured is 1^, inch long(Fig. 176). 178 ANCIENT SCOTTISH LAKK-DWELLINGS. A strong wire, flattened, ^ inches long, and two smallthin plates riveted together, being a fragment of someundetermined object, are all that come under this head,with the exception of the bronze armlet referred to in Mr.MacFadzeans letter, but which has not come into mypossession.^ VI. Miscellaneous Objects. Beads.—One small yellowish bead of vitreous paste(Fig. 177). Another ribbed and made of green glazed ware(Fig. 179). Half of another, very similar to the last bothin colour and composition, but considerably larger, andhaving the hole contracted about its middle by a raisedcircular ridge (Fig. 178).
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Pottery is more abundantly represented than at Lochlee,though of a similar character, and in botli crannogs portionsof Samian ware have been found. Fig. 180 represents portion of a bowl of Samian ware,showing its characteristic moulding, the festoon and tassel,commonly called the egg-and-tongue border, and portions of ^ In case K, in the York Musenm, which, was constructed in 1S72-3,to hold the specimens of Roman Metal Work, Implements, and Orna-ments of Bone, Jet, etc., are:—Four keys almost identical with thatfigured above ; several articles of bronze of a similar type with theobject represented by Fig. 175 ; a small circular bronze brooch withtransverse grooves like Fig. 241 ; three small bifurcated objects likeFig. 240 ; harp-shaped fibulaj, like those from Lochlee ; besides manybone pins and combs, jet rings, beads, etc., all of which are wonderfullylike the corresponding articles found on the crannogs. EXCAVATION OF A CRANNOO AT LOCHSPOUT.- 170 the ornamental figures with whic

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