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domestic pottery could well be preserved, but I greatly fear that such 
articles have not attracted sufficient attention, as, with the exception of 
the very beautiful pitcher obtained through the Rev. Mr. Archbald, from 
the county of Down crannoge, and of which I have given a figure in the 
first part of the Catalogue (see page 158), not one scrap of ancient pot- 
tery has reached our Museum from the crannoges. 
‘Tn all the Swiss pfahlbauten fragments of pottery and earthen ves- 
sels have been discovered. We are also indebted to my friend for two 
metallic articles found in the same locality, a narrow iron hatchet or wood- 
splitter, called in Irish Zuogh .Connaidh, andin Welsh Buyal kennt. It 
is 8 inches long, and 14 inches wide at the cutting-edge, and will be num- 
bered 259 in our collection of axes; also a bronze needle or bodkin, 
3 inches long, with the eye unusually perfect. 
‘‘T have recently been informed by the Earl of Granard that, in a small 
island, about 200 yards off shore, in the lake formed by the Shannon at 
Castleforbes, county of Longford, he discovered traces of stockading and 
enlargement, together with a sort of coarse wicker-work surrounding it. 
Several bronze pins were found in the excavations; and from the account 
given by his Lordship, itis quite manifest that this islet also was a cran- 
noge. 
“The subject of crannoges, stockaded or fortified islands, which I had 
the honour to bring the first notice of before the Academy nineteen years 
ago, and upon which I have published an essay in the Catalogue, has 
recently attracted much attention among the learned, both in the British 
Isles and on the Continent. Mr. Digby Wyatt brought the subject 
before the Institute of British Architects in London last year. A paper 
was read the year before last in the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by 
Mr. Joseph Robertson, showing that upwards of thirty crannoges existed 
in the lakes of that country, and he informs me that there are documen- 
tary notices of these structures from the twelfth down to the middle of 
the seventeenth century, when one was dismantled by order of Parlia- 
ment. He also states, in a letter which I recently received from him, 
that ‘a crannoge, which there is évery reason to believe was a palace of 
the Scottish kings before A. D. 1097, was, in 1232, bestowed by one of 
them upon a neighbouring monastery. In 1508 the monastery granted a 
lease of the crannoge to an ecclesiastic, making him bound to make heaps 
of stones for its defence from the waters of the lake. The lake has been 
drained, and the oak piles of the crannoge are found to have been pro- 
tected by heaps of loose stones.’ Much valuable information may be 
anticipated from the forthcoming Essay of Mr. Robertson upon these ves- 
tiges of the early habitations of the Celtic race in Scotland. In the mean- 
~ time, he has, with extreme liberality, furnished me with the following 
list of localities in which crannoges have been discovered, and which I 
publish for the benefit of any antiquarian tourists who may visit Scotland 
before that work appears :— 
‘“The Isle of the Loch of Banchory, in Kincardineshire; the Peel of 
Loch Cannor, in Aberdeenshire; St. Margaret’s Inch, inthe Loch of Forfar; 
the Isle of Loch Tummell, in Perthshire; Loch Dhu, in the Isle of Bute ; 
