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of the island three circles of piles can be seen below the 

 water on a calm day. They are about a yard apart. 

 35 feet from, the east shore, part of a circle of piles is 

 visible under the water ; they may be part of the circle 

 that was found in the most northern excavation, here- 

 after mentioned, as the heads of a circle of piles were 

 observed among the reeds on the north of the island. 

 Prom the east shore a double row of piles runs out to 

 the circle, and on the north of the double row are hori- 

 zontal beams parallel to it. A little N. W. of the double 

 row, in an old working, there is part of a circle of piles ; 

 and in another, a row of piles running nearly E. and 

 W. Mr. Hemsworth, of Danesfort, who spent many of 

 his younger days boating on the lake, and knows every 

 part of it, informs me, that on the upper end of some of 

 the upright piles there were the marks of where hori- 

 zontal beams were morticed on them. These seem now 

 to have disappeared, as I did not remark them. 



I caused to be made six excavations in this crannoge. 

 The first ran S. from the trigonometrical point for 48 

 feet. It is marked E on plan. The north end was not 

 carried down very deep, and gave the following sec- 

 tion : — 



Section No. 2. 



Feet. Inches. 



5. Stones, peat, and clay, ) bones scattered sparingly ( L 4 

 4. Marl and peat, j through them, ( I 0 



3. Marl (8 inches), peat (12 inches), 1 8 



2. Scraws or peat sods, 1 0 



1. Marl, not sunk into. 



5 0 



At about 35 feet from the north end, there was the 

 following section: — 



Section No. 3. 



Feet. Inches. 



6. Clay, stones, and peat, with bones, 1 6 



6. Yellow sandy marl, 2 6 



4. Turf sods, with heather and moss, ....... 1 0 



3. Horizontal basket flooring, 0 1 



2. Sandy clay, 3 0 



1. Turf sods, with heather and moss, 0 6 



8 7 



o y 



o u. 



By the Ordnance Map, the centre of this island is 

 3*5 higher than the water of the lake; and as the place 

 where this section was taken was 1 J foot lower than the 

 centre, we find that the basket flooring (No. 3) is about 

 3 feet lower than the lake, and the lower turf sods 



