Half of a small bead, measuring 3/4 of an inch in diameter, of white
glass streaked with blue (Fig. 24).
Small portion of blue glass.
Portion of a leather shoe, measuring 7 inches in length, and 3-1/2
inches in its greatest breadth, nearly covered with ornamental stamped
patterns (Fig. 25).
[Illustration: Fig. 25.--Portion of Shoe (length 7 inches).]
Besides the above list there were found five canoes, five quern-stones,
and several whetstones.
[Illustration: Fig. 26.--Bronze Ornament (2 inches in diameter).]
On the 14th of March 1881, R. Vans Agnew, Esq. of Barnbarroch,
presented to the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,
a brooch or ornamental mounting of bronze, found in Dowalton Loch,
Wigtownshire, of which Fig. 26 is a representation. It is ornamented
with trumpet-shaped spaces, probably filled with enamel, and measures
2 inches in diameter. Mr. Vans Agnew gives the following account of
the circumstances in which it was discovered:--"The bronze ornament
or brooch was found last summer in the bed of the Loch of Dowalton
by Master Alexander Gibson, grandson of Mr. Alexander Cumming, the
venerable tenant of the farm of Stonehouse, on the shore of the lake.
It was then seventeen years since the lake was drained. I have not been
able to ascertain the exact spot where it was found, but it was not far
from the site of some of the crannogs."[20]
REPORT ON OSSEOUS REMAINS.
The following is Professor Owen's report of the bones which were
submitted to him for examination:--
"The bones and teeth from the lake-dwellings, submitted to my
examination by Lord Lovaine, included parts of the ox, hog, and goat.
The ox was of the size of the _Bos longifrons_, or Highland kyloe, and
was represented by teeth, portions of the lower jaw, and some bones of
the limbs and trunk. The remains of the _sus_ were a lower jaw of a
sow, of the size of the wild boar, and detached teeth. With the remains
of the small ruminant, of the size of the sheep, was a portion of a
cranium with the base of a horn core, more resembling in shape that of
the he-goat. Not any of these remains had lost their animal matter.--R.
O."
LOCH KIELZIEBAR, ARGYLLSHIRE.
In December 1867 a paper, by the Rev. R. J. Mapleton, Corr. Mem. S.
Ant. Scot., Kilmartin, was read at the meeting of the S. A. Scot.,
describing an artificial island in Loch Kielziebar, near the Crinan
Canal. The author thus sums up his observations:--"Altogether, I think
that it is evident that the crannog was entirely composed of rock and
walling, with the middle part filled up with smaller stones: that there
existed considerable works of wood on the east, south, and west sides,
at least, but whether a rampart outside, or a building on the structure
itself, is not quite clear; that there was a partial causeway, now
under water, and the interval either filled in with brushwood, or
passed over in a canoe."--(_Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._ vol. vii. p. 322.)
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