[Illustration: =Fig. 140.=--Hone, 6¼ inches long.]
_Stone._--Several hammer-stones and sling-stones, etc. Five whetstones
or hones of the ordinary form. They are made of hard clay-stone or
sometimes fine sandstone, and vary in length from 5 to 7 inches. One
6¼ inches long has a groove running nearly its whole length (=Fig.
140=). A large oval pebble of white quartz used as an anvil. A flat
circular stone, 3 inches in diameter and 1⅜ inch thick, shaped like a
cheese. One stone celt made of a hard mottled greenstone (=Fig. 141=).
Five upper and some bits of lower millstones or querns, mostly of
granite. The former are all somewhat elongated, with a funnel-shaped
hole in the centre and generally a small round hole near the margin,
as seen in the accompanying illustration. Two cup-marked stones, one
with two concentric circles (=Fig. 141=). One spindle-whorl of stone
and three of clay (=Fig. 141=). Two flint flakes and one scraper
(=Fig. 141=). Several worked portions of stones.
_Bone and Horn._--Two chisels, five pointed objects, a small spoon, a
needle with its eye in the middle, a small ring, and several worked
bits of ribs were of bone. Of horn there were about forty worked
pieces--clubs, hooks, bodkins, handles, etc. (=Fig. 142=).
[Illustration: =Fig. 141.=--Objects of Stone and Clay.]
_Wood._--A neat trough, like a butcher's tray, cut out of the solid
wood (=Fig. 143=). Five dishes turned on the lathe, bowls, plates,
a ladle, etc. A piece of ashwood, 5 inches square, having a curious
design carved on both sides (=Figs. 144= and =145=). Six club-like
implements, a mallet, and a few things apparently intended for
agricultural purposes. Five varieties of pegs from five to fourteen
inches in length, with heads and sometimes perforations. One here
figured is 14 inches long (=Fig. 136=). Stern-piece of a canoe, a
double paddle, portion of a large oar, and three canoes. The paddle
and mallet are here figured (=Fig. 146=).
[Illustration: =Fig. 142.=--Objects of Bone and Horn.]
[Illustration: =Fig. 143.=--Wooden Tray (⅙).]
_Iron._--An axe-head with a piece of the handle still in the socket
(=Fig. 146=); a gouge 8 inches long, and a chisel 10 inches long,
both having tangs on which there is a thick ridge to prevent their
insertion too far into the handle; two knives with tangs; a small
punch, an awl, and other pointed implements; a crosscut saw, in three
fragments, together 38 inches in length; a large iron ring; a pair of
shears; and a large three-pronged implement of a remarkable character.
The last two objects are illustrated on =Fig. 147=. Two spear-heads
with sockets and portions of the wooden handle remaining in each. The
larger, 13 inches long, has a prominent centre ridge. Five daggers,
all with tangs, one of which has a bone handle and a brass ferrule.
[Illustration: =Fig. 144.=--Carved Wood (1/1).]
_Bronze or Brass._--A curious spatula-like object of beaten
bronze (=Fig. 147=). Three fibulæ and a ring pin (=Fig. 148=). The
square-shaped portion at the top of the latter has a _swastika_ or
_croix gammée_ on one side and a cross with four equal arms on the
other. A spiral finger-ring with three twists, two portions of stout
wire, and an object of unknown use.
[Illustration: =Fig. 145.=--Carved--other side of Fig. 144 (1/1).]
A bridle-bit having the centre-piece of iron and the side-pieces
partly of iron and partly of bronze--the rings being iron and the
looped portion bronze (=Fig. 149=).
_Lead._--One round knob like the hilt of a handle.
[Illustration: =Fig. 146.=--Iron Axe (½), Wooden Mallet (⅛), and
Paddle (1/24).]
[Illustration: =Fig. 147.=--Iron Prong (⅕), Iron Shears, (⅔), and
Bronze Spatula (½).]
_Pottery._--Portion of the bottom of a dish like Samian ware, and five
fragments of a whitish unglazed ware with parallel striæ, as if made
on the wheel. Fragment of a small crucible.
[Illustration: =Fig. 148.=--Two Fibulæ (1/1) and a Ring Pin (½).]
_Glass._--Two beads, one of earthenware of ribbed pattern and coated
with green glaze, like those from Dowalton. (See =Fig. 132.=) The
other is of green glass, smooth and shaped like dumb-bells.
[Illustration: =Fig. 149.=--Bridle-bit (½).]
_Leather._--Portion of a shoe and various bits of leather, one being
closely set with copper nails (=Fig. 150=).
_Miscellaneous._--Three portions of plain jet bracelets; another
portion of jet is like part of a button; a boar's tusk worked into
a sharp point; lumps of blue and red pigment, and large quantities
of the horny coverings of insects like beetles, and one or two
brilliant-coloured _elytra_; one solitary shell (_Littorina littorea_).
[Illustration: =Fig. 150.=--Fringe made from Stems of a Moss
(_Polytrichum commune_) (⅓), and piece of Thick Leather with Copper
Nails (1/1).]
An object which has excited considerable curiosity is an apparatus
made like a fringe by plaiting together at one end the long stems of
a kind of moss (=Fig. 150=). Portions of similar articles were found
in three different parts of the crannog and all deeply buried. One
portion of this moss was plaited in four plies and shaped like a cue
or pig-tail. It measured 17 inches long and 2 broad in the middle, and
tapered to a point.