The Lake Dwellings of Ireland: Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs.Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory)
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The Lake Dwellings of Ireland: Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs.
Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory)
Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings -- Ireland
The following articles, discovered in the large crannog, were presented
to the Museum, R. I. A.:--The upper stone of a grain-rubber; a
perfect quern, seventeen inches in diameter, its upper surface highly
decorated; a flat circular stone disc or quoit, like some found
in connexion with cinerary urns; three do., one-half inch thick,
and three and a-quarter inches in diameter; a portion of the stone
coulter of a plough, thirteen inches long, with an artificial hole
near the broad end for attaching it to the beam; a mortar, eight
inches high, by seventeen and a-half inches wide, decorated at the
corners with grotesque figures; a stone mould, with the casting groove
in the long axis; two weapon-sharpeners of a remarkably hard stone
resembling quartz; eleven fragments of sharpening-stones, averaging
from two and a-half inches to six inches in length, two of them
perforated; a four-sided whetstone, twenty inches by three inches; a
large oval stone, artificially smoothed on all its surfaces--like a
web-polisher--it measures ten and a-half inches, by three and a-half
inches; several smaller-sized do.; a curved, water-worn, dark-coloured
stone, highly polished, probably a burnisher; a flat red touchstone,
three and a-half inches long, formed of jasper, and used for testing
gold; a portion of slate with three circular cavities; a stone half
perforated; a small perforated stone like a “whorl”; five globular
stones like sink-stones for nets; a stone bullet, three inches in
diameter; three oval-shaped, artificially worked stones; a bone
spoon (p. 140, fig. 194); four portions of combs; two large beads; a
ferrule, solid at one end, and two and a-half inches long; a small,
highly-polished pin, and a very perfect piercer of bone; two horns
of red deer, both imperfect; ten large boar-tusks, and some teeth
of ruminants; a ring of bronze, that had been probably part of a
fibula--it was in an imperfect state; a ring, three and a-quarter
inches in diameter; a large decorated bronze pin, seven and a-half
inches long, and a smaller one that measured three inches; the head
of a battle-axe of iron; a knife-blade, with perforated haft, eight
and a-half inches, and a smaller blade, two and three-quarter inches
in length; a globular piece of iron, two and three-quarter inches
in diameter; the head of a small hammer; three fragments of rings,
and eleven other fragments of iron, the former uses of which could
not be determined; several pieces of slag; fourteen pieces of broken
pottery--amongst them was part of a bowl or urn, unglazed, decorated
on the outside with deeply-grooved lines, and with slight indentations
on the inverted lip--it was formed of very dark-coloured clay, mixed
with particles of white quartz or felspar; four small earthen crucibles
of the usual shape, three of them very small; a pipe-clay vessel,
manifestly intended for refining purposes; the bowls of two small
pipes, commonly, but erroneously, denominated “Danish tobacco-pipes”;
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