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Longlirea. In it there are holes as if for two handles, to turn it back- 

 wards and forwards, and not describe an entire circle ; while the modern 

 querns have only one handle, and are turned round and round. 



The next excavation was made a little south of the last described, 

 and is marked F on plan. It was 15 feet long, and ran E. 10 IT. (mag.), 

 and gave the following section : — 



Section No. 6. 



Feet. Inches. 



6. Peat, clav, stones, with a few bones, 2 0 



6. Marl, , 0 . 10 



4. Peat, with bones, 1 0 



3. Basket flooring, 0 1 



2. Peat, 3 6 



1. Stones, not sunk into, 



7 5 



"When the stones JSTo. 1 were reached, the water spouted up, and 

 flooded the excavation. 



The basket floor, pieces of the hazel rods being in the collection 

 No. 70, was about the same distance below the waters of the lake as 

 that before mentioned ; and under it was a horizontal beam that ran 

 E. S. E. (mag.). On the floor were numerous bones. This was different 

 from what was found in all the other excavations, as in them there was 

 a layer of sods between the basketwork and the bones. 



In bed ITo. 5 a few bones were scattered about. 



In bed IN'o. 6 there were also a few bones, and the following articles 

 near the bottom of it : — 



1^0. .54. A hone. 



ISTo. 55. Ditto. 



JSTo. 56. A rubstone. 



JiTo. 57. Large sling stone — Quartzite, from the old red conglomerate. 



JSTo. 58. Egg-shaped sling stone — Old red sandstone. 



No. 59. An angular piece of Silurian grit, evidently artificial. 



Three feet from the west end of this working was a single wicker 

 partition, 2*5 feet high. At the south side it seemed to curve round to 

 meet the double wicker partition in excavation E. At the north side it 

 ended against a large beam of oak, scooped out in the middle, and ap- 

 parently part of a trough (No. 68 in collection). This was standing 

 upright on the square end, making a right angle with the wicker par- 

 tition. It here seemed to have beeu used as a door for a hut ; from its 

 east edge ran the before-mentioned horizontal beam. The wicker par- 

 tition began at the top of bed No. 5, and went down into bed No. 2. 



The last excavation to be described lies near the S. E. of the island, 

 and is marked A on plan. It was carried down for 5 feet, the bottom 

 foot consisting of turf sods, in which there were no remains. The other 

 4 feet were peat mixed with bones. Between 3 and 4 feet down the 

 articles now enumerated were found : — 



