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which lately a loch, is now a deep stinking bog of mud and decayed 
vegetation. . . . The whole crannog is some 84 feet long by 56 feet 
wide—one of the largest discovered.’ 
Loch Awe.—Mr. Donald Macdonald, Taynuilt Hotel, writes: ‘I 
have come across an old man of seventy-nine, John McGregor, who 
knows Loch Awe from end to end. He tells of an artificial island on 
the loch opposite Ardnassaig House. In the old days Ardnassaig was 
called New Inverawe. When McGregor was ten years old he remem- 
bers quite well seeing men building this small island, which is about 
12 yards long. Old Mr. Campbell, of New Inverawe, noticed one day, 
when the loch was very low, some stones appearing under the surface 
of the water. He then got a lot of men to gather stones and earth to 
make up this mound. When finished he had some trees planted.’ It 
would thus appear that Mr. Campbell, perceiving that the island was 
being submerged, heightened it on this occasion. All experience goes 
to show that these islands were constantly sinking under their own 
weight, and that even at the time when they were being inhabited 
layer after layer of material was added, so that frequently three and 
four hearths are found one above the other. 
Mr. Francis Darwin suggested the island opposite Inverliever. In 
reply to the circular Mr. H. E. Bury, present tenant of Inverliever, 
wrote: ‘ West of the Inverliever burn there is a wooded promontory, 
which in very high floods is an island. Round this promontory is a 
bay, and in the next bay west of this is the island in question. It is 
composed of a mass of stones, in the otherwise sandy bay, and is about 
50 yards from the shore. At the ordinary level of the loch the top of 
it is about 3 feet out of the water, and I should certainly say (and so 
does my friend, Mr. J. B. Hill, who was Geological Surveyor for 
many years for that part of Scotland) that the island is artificial. I 
think there are signs of a causeway to the shore.’ 
Loch Ternate.—This island was suggested as artificial by Mr. A. 
Nicholson, of Arisaig, and Mr. John Ross, keeper, sent some interesting 
traditions about it, but without determining the question as to whether 
or not it was so. 
Loch Kielzievar and Torlundi.—The examples here are mentioned 
in the Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1867 and 
1868, but do not appear in Dr. Munro’s volume ‘ Ancient Scottish Lake 
Dwellings,’ which I had taken as the standard authority. After the 
two lists of suggested islands had been printed and the present report 
almost completed I found that they are included in the author’s ‘ Lake 
Dwellings of Europe,’ published a few years after the first-mentioned 
volume. ‘This same remark applies to some of the other islands in this 
paper. 
Isle of Mull.—My letter to Messrs. Lindsay, Howe, and Co. was 
forwarded to the Duke of Argyll, who kindly answeyed it himself. 
“Mar. 12, 1912. I received last night a typed letter with your 
signature asking about artificial islands. That on Loch Baa, Salen, is 
opposite Mr. Melles’ house, on my side of the loch, and is a cairn of 
stones. There are one or two, under water, off this low shore, at foot 
of Glen Clachaig, in the same loch, but these may be mere mounds 
