ANCIENT SCOTTISH LAKE-DWELLINGS OR CRANNOGS. _Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas and Archibald Constable_ FOR DAVID DOUGLAS. LONDON HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. CAMBRIDGE MACMILLAN AND BOWES. GLASGOW JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS. [Illustration: LOCHSPOUTS (_LOOKING NORTHWARDS_)] ANCIENT SCOTTISH LAKE-DWELLINGS OR CRANNOGS WITH A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER ON REMAINS OF LAKE-DWELLINGS IN ENGLAND BY ROBERT MUNRO, M.A. M.D., F.S.A. SCOT. [Illustration] EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS 1882 _All rights reserved._ PREFACE. In publishing this work few prefatory remarks are required, beyond an explanation of the circumstances which led to its assuming the present form. The primary object contemplated was to place before general readers a record of some remarkable discoveries recently made in the south-west of Scotland, in a department of Archæology hitherto little known, and of which carefully prepared reports have already appeared in the second and third volumes of the Collections of the Ayrshire and Wigtownshire Archæological Association. As it was at the instigation of R. W. Cochran-Patrick, Esq., M.P., that the explorations which led to these discoveries were originally undertaken, so it was also with him that the proposal to issue these reports in a handy volume originated. It occurred, however, to me, that, considering how little had been known of Scottish Lake-Dwellings in general, and that even this little was only accessible to the members of a few learned Societies, it would be a more satisfactory undertaking to incorporate with the original reports, a _résumé_ of the observations made by previous writers and explorers, so as to present to the public a complete compendium, as it were, of the whole subject. The outcome of this idea is the volume now published, which, accordingly, aims at comprising all that is actually known of ancient _British_ Lake-Dwellings up to the present time. Such being its comprehensive scope, perhaps an apology ought to be here made for its many shortcomings; but this, I trust, will appear less necessary when I explain that it is the result of the occupation of such scraps of time as could be spared during the last two or three years from the active duties of a busy professional life.