Ancient Scottish Lake-Dwellings or Crannogs

Ancient Scottish Lake-Dwellings or Crannogs - With a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England

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 Archology 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 Archological 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 mem[vi]bers of a few learned Societies, it would be a more satisfactory undertaking to incorporate with the original reports, a rsum 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. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 52339
Author: Munro, Robert
Release Date: Jun 15, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English