The Clyde Mystery. Lang Andrew

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СКАЧАТЬ describes ‘a belt of stones, forming a pavement about six feet wide and just awash with the mud,’ extending westwards about twenty yards from the central cavity, till it intersected the breakwater. 30 These so-called pavements and causeways were probably formed during the construction of the tower with its central pole, or perhaps at the time of its demolition, as it would be manifestly inconvenient to transport stones to or from such a place, in the midst of so much slush, without first making some kind of firm pathway. Their present superficial position alone demonstrates the absurdity of assigning the Dumbuck structures to Neolithic times, as if the only change effected in the bed of the Clyde since then would be the deposition of a few inches of mud. At a little distance to the west of these wooden structures there is the terminal end of a modern ditch (‘the burn’ of Mr. Alston), extending towards the shore, and having on its eastern bank a row of stepping-stones; a fact which, in my opinion, partly accounts for the demolition of the stonework, which formerly stood over them. So far, the facts disclosed by the excavations of the structures at Dumbuck, though highly interesting as evidence of the hand of man in the early navigation of the Clyde basin, present nothing very remarkable or improbable. It is when we come to examine the strange relics which the occupants of this habitation have left behind them that the real difficulties begin.”

      Dr. Munro next describes the disputed things found at Dumbuck. They were analogous to those alleged to have been unearthed at Dunbuie. They were

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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.

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      Munro, p. xii.

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

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      Methuen, London, 1904, pp. 292.

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      Munro, p. 178.

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      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 bee

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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.

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Munro, p. xii.

3

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

4

Methuen, London, 1904, pp. 292.

5

Munro, p. 178.

6

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.

7

Munro, pp. 41, 42.

8

Munro, pp. 275-279.

9

L’Anthropologie, 1902, pp. 348-354.

10

Munro, pp. 175-176.

11

Munro, p. 152.

12

Munro, pp. 28, 29.

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Munro, p. 130.

14

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

15

Munro, p. 260.

16

Munro, p. 270.

17

Munro, p. 270.

18

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

19

Archaeologia Scotica, vol. v. p. 146.

20

See pages 133, 166.

21

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

22

Munro, 133, 134, 150-151.

23

Munro, pp. 139, 140.

24

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

25

Journal of the British Archaeological Society, December 1898.

26

Prehistoric Scotland, p. 431.

27

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

28

Vol. xxx. 270.

29

Vol. xxxiv. p. 438.

30

Mr. Alston describes this causeway, and shows it on the plan as “leading from the ‘central well’ to the burn about 120 fee to west of centre of crannog.”

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