PREHISTORIC NAVAL ARrHITECTURE. 549 



lecbtia libeic,'" and in the reign of Malcolm Oeannior ''Renfrin" was 

 entered with a large lleet.^ 



Ill 1683, while digging" a water gate for a mill in the town of Stran- 

 rawer, the workmen came npon a ship a eo)isideri(ble distance from the 

 shore, into tchich the sea, at the hiffhest spring tide, never eomes. '' It was 

 lying transversely under a little bourn, and wholly covered with earth 

 a considerable depth; for there was a good yard, with kail growing in 

 it, upon the one end of it. lint that part of it which was gotten out, 

 my informer, who saw it, conjecture that it had been pretty large; they 

 also tell me that the boards Avere not joined together after the present 

 i'ashion, but that it had nails of copper."'^ The remains were left in 

 situ, and while the given account is rather meager, the use of copper 

 nails would indicate considerable antiquity. 



Ill reviewing the whole evidence, gee (logical and archfcological, afforded 

 by the Scottish coast line, Mr. Lyell'' conchides that: ''The last upheaval 

 of 25 feet took place not only since the first human jwpulation settled 

 in the island, but long after metallic implements had come into use; 

 and there even seems a strong presumi)tion in favor of the opinion that 

 the date of the elevation may Inn e been subsequent to the Roman inva- 

 sion."' 



In some of the boats found at Glasgow,"^ and in one discovered in 

 1834 in the creek of river Arun, near North Stoke, Sussex,'' the stern 

 board arrangement, fully described and tlgured in a preceding chapter, 

 on the boat found at Brigg, Lincolnshire, is noticeable, and other fea- 

 tures ill their construction connect them intimately wath those of Loch 

 Arthur, Scotland, Valerinoor, Denmark, and with tiie crafts ascribed 

 by Tacitus" to the Batavians and Frisians in their revolt, in A. d. 70, 

 against the Roman Government. 



THE SAXONS. 



The next tribe assuming maritime supremacvMn the Northern seas 

 are the Saxons, who, according to their own lore,*^ claim vassalship under 



' Liber Cartariini Sancte Crucis, p. 5. 



- Chron. Maimiie in Mr. Skene's Celtic Scotland, Vol. i , p. 17.3 ; ([aotcd by Macjjjeorge, 

 Old Glasgow, 1880, p. 261. 



■^ Kennedy, Alexander: Notice respecting- an ancient ship discovered in a garden at 

 Stranrawer, iu Galloway. (In "Archaiologia Scotica,'' Vol. ill, Edinburgh, 1828.) 

 The notice was copied from a manuscript account of the bishopi'ic of Galloway iu 

 the possession of Thomas Goldic, esq., of Dumfries, supposed to be a copy of the 

 " Description of Galloway," written by Andrew Symsou, minister of Kirkinnes, in the 

 year 1(581, of which an elegant and correct edition has been recently printed for the 

 Urst time from a manuscript copy revised and enlarged by tlie iiuthor in 1692. 



^ Lyell, Charles: Antiquity of Man. 



'-• Chambers, B.: Ancient Sea Margins, p. 205. 



^E. r. Loftus Brock iu Proc. P.rit. Arcli. Assoc, May 19, 188(i. 



''Tacit. Hist., iv, c. 79. 



'^(h-imm, deutsclie Sagen, i, 408. Dresser, Sachsenchronik, p. 7-8. Annolied (XII 

 Cent), 21, 2:!0. Sachscnspifgcl, in, 44, 2, :i 



