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Sling-bullets. — Several of the baked clay sling-bullets typical of 

 the period have been collected. Under the clay floors of the mounds 

 three groups of selected ovoid stones were discovered, the numbers 

 being 99, 182, and 347, respectively. 



Spindle-whorls. — The former number of twenty -three has this 

 season been increased to forty-three. Most of them are formed from 

 discs of lias; a few are of baked clay, two being very large. 



Pottery. — Shards of pottery have been very numerous — some three 

 or four hundredweight. All of them have been scrubbed and pre- 

 served, being sorted under the numbers of the dwellings. Several com- 

 plete pots may probably be built up some day. The proportion of 

 ornamented fragments is high as compared with those from the neigh- 

 bouring village, and a great many new and highly ornate designs have 

 been added to the collection. Very little ornamented pottery was dis- 

 covered in the deepest layers ; and much of it bearing typical Late- 

 Celtic designs was found just under the flood-soil. The coarser plain 

 pots were generally found in the black earth and brushwood below 

 the clay floors. 



Human Remains.. — Two pieces of skull and one bicuspid tooth. 



Animal Remains. — Found abundantly. The perforated boars' tusks 

 and canine teeth of large dog were no doubt used as personal ornament. 

 The enormous number of bones of young animals indicates that the 

 inhabitants of this marsh village must have been great meat-eaters. 

 The remains of beaver and otter are frequently met with; and also a 

 considerable number of bird-bones. 



Artificial Islands in the Locks of the Highlands of Scotland. — Report 

 of the Committee, consisting of Dr. R. Munro (Chairman), Professor 

 J. L. Myres (Secretary), Dr. T. H. Bryce, and Professor W. Boyd 

 Dawkins, appointed to investigate and ascertain the Distribution 

 thereof. 



The Committee desire in the first place to express their indebtedness 

 to their local correspondent, Dom. F. Odo Blundell, of St. Benedict's 

 Abbey, Fort Augustus, N.B., at whose suggestion the present inquiry 

 was put in hand. Dom. Blundell had already wide experience of the 

 problems which it raises, and has placed all his knowledge and energy 

 at the disposal of the Committee. 



As the extent of country covered by this inquiry is very large, the 

 Committee thought that the first step would be to ascertain the number 

 of these islands which are already known as artificial by their immediate 

 neighbours, but are not otherwise recorded. Accordingly a circular 

 was prepared and printed, and so far 246 copies have been issued. 



The replies show that great interest is taken in the subject and 

 many excellent suggestions have been offered as to how the inquiry can 

 be made more complete. As was to be expected, the replies to the 

 circular in many cases gave details of islands which were already 

 recorded in Dr. Munro 's ' Scottish Lake Dwellings ' ; but allowing for 

 these, we are now enabled to add to that list no fewer than fifty-three 



