Andrew Lang - The Clyde Mystery

An under quern stone, 19 inches in diameter, was found about halfway between the canoe and the margin of the circle of piles, and immediately to the east of the so-called causeway already described.

I carefully examined the surface of the log-pavement with the view of finding evidence as to the possibility of its having been at any time the habitable area of this strange dwelling-place; but the result was absolutely negative, as not a single particle of bone or ash was discovered in any of its chinks. This fact, together with the impossibility of living on a surface that is submerged every twelve hours, and the improbability of any land subsidence having taken place since prehistoric times, or any adequate depression from the shrinkage of the under-structures themselves, compels me to summarily reject the theory that the Dumbuck structure in its present form was an ordinary crannog. The most probable hypothesis, and that which supplies a reasonable explanation of all the facts, is that the woodwork was the foundation of a superstructure of stones built sufficiently high to be above the action of the tides and waves, over which there had been some kind of dwelling-place. The unique arrangement of the wooden substructures suggests that the central building was in the form of a round tower with very thick walls, like the brochs and other forts of North Britain. The central space was probably occupied with a pole, firmly fixed at its base in the ‘well,’ and kept in position by suitable stays, resting partly on the stone ‘cairns’ already described, partly in wooden sockets fixed into the log-pavement, and partly on the inner wall of the tower. This suggestion seems to me to be greatly strengthened by the following description of some holed tree-roots in Mr. Bruce’s paper to the Scottish Antiquaries: 29 29 Vol. xxxiv. p. 438.

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Archaeology and False Antiquities , pp. 259-261. By Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E., F.S.A.Scot. Methuen & Co., London, 1905.

Munro, p. xii.

Munro, pp. 56-80. Cf. L’Homme Prehistorique , No. 7, pp. 214-218. (1905.)

Methuen, London, 1904, pp. 292.

Munro, p. 178.

Munro, p. 55; cf. his Lake Dwellings in Europe , Fig. 13, Nos. 17, 18, 19. See Arch. and False Antiquities , pp. 21, 22, where Dr. Munro acknowledges that he had been taken in.

Munro, pp. 41, 42.

Munro, pp. 275-279.

L’Anthropologie , 1902, pp. 348-354.

Munro, pp. 175-176.

Munro, p. 152.

Munro, pp. 28, 29.

Munro, p. 130.

Munro, p. 155. Letter of January 7, 1899.

Munro, p. 260.

Munro, p. 270.

Munro, p. 270.

Bruce, Proceedings of the Scots Society of Antiquaries , vol. xxxiv. pp. 439, 448, 449.

Archaeologia Scotica , vol. v. p. 146.

See pages 133, 166.

March 1899, “Cup and Ring”; cf. the same article in my Magic and Religion , 1901, pp. 241-256.

Munro, 133, 134, 150-151.

Munro, pp. 139, 140.

See Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow , xxx. 268, and fig. 4.

Journal of the British Archaeological Society , December 1898.

Prehistoric Scotland , p. 431.

See Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow , xxx. fig. 4.

Vol. xxx. 270.

Vol. xxxiv. p. 438.