The last two crannogs lay at a very low level, owing perhaps to the fact of an unusual quantity of boughs and compressible matter having been used in their construction.
In this lake one of the four crannogs discovered was constructed of both stones and oak piling.
Crannogs and street cuttings are the principal localities from which the small pins, figs.
Although the material is usually bone, yet specimens formed of wood are not uncommon: the great majority of combs discovered in Irish crannogs are highly artistic in design--the handle portion sometimes presenting animal forms.
Decorated Bones from the Crannogs of Ardakillen and Lagore.
The references to crannogs in the Irish annals are very numerous, extending over a period from the middle of the ninth to the seventeenth century.
Canoes are so invariably found associated with crannogs that their discovery in lakes and bogs has been considered by Dr.
Some crannogs seem to have been continuously occupied until they were finally abandoned, while others were deserted for longer or shorter periods.
All these, with perhaps the exception of the pile-structures at London Wall, appear to be older than the majority of the crannogs of Scotland and Ireland.
The Crannogsof Drumdarragh, otherwise Trillick, and Lankill, county Fermanagh.
In instituting an inquiry as to how far the geographical distribution of crannogs coincides with that of the various nationalities of the period, we arrive at some striking results.
Among the relics from these crannogs illustrated in Wilde's catalogue I find the following in addition to those already given.
From one of the crannogs at Machermore Loch there is a stone implement, with circular hollows on each face (=Fig.
But it was not until after the discovery of the pile-villages of the Swiss lakes, in 1853, had drawn public attention to the subject of lake-dwellings, that the crannogs of Scotland and Ireland were systematically investigated.
Crannogs are frequently referred to in the Irish annals.
On the other hand, the implements and weapons found in the Scottish and Irish crannogs are usually of iron, or, if objects of bronze and stone are found, they are commonly such as were in use in the Iron Age.
The metal objects are, as a rule, characteristic of the period between the 9th and the 12th centuries, though we have evidence that some of the Irish Crannogs were in use long after that time.
The Scotch and Irish Crannogs appear to belong to the Iron Age.
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