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Scotland a large number of similar structures have been discovered. 

 Not very long after attention had been directed to the Irish Lake 

 dwellings, similar erections were found on the shores of several of the 

 Swiss Lakes, and Dr. Ferdinand Keller (4) expended much time and 

 energy in their investigation. Dr. Robert Monro (5, p. 302) has 

 ventured an opinion that the original British Celts, who were probably 

 the builders of the Lake dwellings, were an offshoot of the founders 

 of the Swiss Lake dwellings, who emigrated to Britain and spread 

 northwards and westwards over Scotland and Ireland. On this 

 hypothesis, it is probable that the first settlers would occupy the 

 eastern counties of England, and migrate thence northward and 

 westward. This seems to be borne out by the evidence of the York- 

 shire examples, which, if the objects found in them may be considered 

 to indicate the period of occupation, are as early or earlier than those 

 of any other locality in the British Islands. 



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1856. 



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London Wall and Southwark, possibly the remains of Pile Buildings. Journ. 

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