The following extract of a letter from Sir G. Grant Suttie gives the details of the discovery, dated 16th Feby. 1849:--"Last autumn my labourers were trenching amongst some rhododendrons in a piece of mossy ground under a peculiar ledge of grey rocks, in my park at Balgone, near my house, and about a mile and a half due south from North Berwick Law, when they found a number of camp-kettles of various sizes, one very large, and in this, one of the goblets was found. They were close to each other, and about 8 feet from the surface. The meadow, extending to about 20 acres, where they were found, was generally under water till imperfectly drained by me; since then the level has sunk from 3 to 4 feet. I have little doubt that when these kettles were deposited here the meadow was a lake, or at all events a morass."--(_Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._ vol. iii. p. 251.)] [Footnote 42: See _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._ vol. vi. p. 91.] [Footnote 43: _Lake-Dwellings_, by Keller, Second Edition, p. 657.] [Footnote 44: _A Treatise on the Origin, Qualities, and Cultivation of Moss Earth_, 1811.] [Footnote 45: _Sketches of Early Scottish History_, p. 100.] [Footnote 46: Portion of the trunk of an oak-tree, recently dug out of the moss at the margin of the lake basin, still lies on the surrounding hedge bank.] [Footnote 47: _Notes of a Tour in the East_, 1875.] [Footnote 48: "It (the comb, Fig. 255) is 2-1/2 inches long, and 1-3/4 deep, and the three pectinated portions are held together by flat sides, decorated with scrolls and circles. The top or handle shows a triple open-work decoration, and the side-pieces are grooved at one end for receiving the clasp of a metal tooth, which replaced one of the lost bone ones." Double-edged combs "vary from 3 to 4-1/2 inches in length, and from 1-1/4 to 2-1/4 across, the teeth portions being double, and passing through and through the sides to which they were riveted." "The crannogs of Dunshaughlin, Ardakillen, and Cloonfinlough, and the street cuttings in the city of Dublin, have afforded nearly all the specimens of which the localities have been recorded. The total number of combs at present in the collection, including those on the 'Find Trays,' is eighty. Many of these combs are but fragmentary; yet in each a sufficiency has been preserved to enable us to judge of the original size, and also of its style of ornamentation, which generally consists of transverse or oblique grooves, diced-work, interlacings, dotted lines, and circles surrounding a central indented spot."--(Wilde's _Catalogue_.)] [Footnote 49: "The comb drawn in the sketch (Fig. 259) is an elaborate affair, consisting of central piece or pieces, with teeth; the upper portion being strengthened in front and behind by transverse pieces of ornamented bone, riveted together by now much corroded iron rivets; three of the rivets are reproduced."--(_Roman City of Uriconium_, p. 86.)] [Footnote 50: _Collect. Antiq. and Journal of Anthrop. Inst._ vol. i.]