It`s a reconstruction of a Loch Tay crannog dating from 600BC. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
The only light in the small room was from the flare of the torches set around the crannog outside. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
His gaze was still shifting nervously about the crannog, and she could see a glitter of perspiration on his brow. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
The island in the lake was probably a crannog, or artificial fortified island, such as are common on the lakes of Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
It was a crannog: a grouping of round, reed-thatched huts raised on oak piles above the swampy ground and connected by a network of swaying rope-and-wood causeways. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
Meanwhile, archaeologists excavating a Welsh crannog, or bog dwelling built on stilts, may have found evidence of a royal fondness for the corgi dog that predates Queen Elizabeth II's by more than a millennium. From Wordnik.com. [Man's Best Friends] Reference
There was a lot of textile stuff in both the exhibition and in the reconstructed crannog....fibres and yarns from plants like nettles as well as sheep wool, natural dyeing, several reconstructions of stone weighted looms and of course stone whorl spindles. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
The meaning, if any, of these inscribed stones, in the Lochlee crannog, is unknown. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
One, of slate, was plain, as plain as "a bit of gas coal with a round hole bored through it," recorded by Dr. Munro from Ashgrove Loch crannog. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
On the other hand, in the same crannog, a hammerstone broken in two was found, each half in a different place, as were two parts of a figurine at Dumbuck. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
A crannog is an artificial island on which people built houses, kept animals and lived in relative security (as you can see by the fence surrounding the island). From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Nor is there any reason why these people should not have scratched archaic markings on the pebbles as they certainly cut them on stones in a Scottish crannog of the Iron age. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
A superstition which has certainly endured to the nineteenth century may obviously have existed among the Picts, or whoever they were, of the crannog and broch period on Clyde. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
To Dr. Munro, apart from his most valuable books of crannog lore, I owe his kind attention to my private inquiries, and hope that I successfully represent his position and arguments. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
He tentatively suggests that the stones may have been used, perhaps, for the stone causeway now laid along the bank of the recently made canal, from a point close to the crannog to the railway. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
There are several examples of hammer-stones of the ordinary crannog type, rubbing-stones, whetstones, as well as a large number of water-worn stones which might have been used as hand-missiles or sling-stones. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
The result of the excavations, so far as I can gather from observations made during my second visit to the 'crannog,' and the descriptions and plans published by various societies, may be briefly stated as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
Here, then, we have these archaic patterns and marks on isolated stones, one of them about 13 inches long, in a genuine Scottish crannog, of the genuine Iron age, while flint celts also occur, and objects of bronze. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
Moreover, the appearance of an unique and previously unheard-of set of inscribed stones, in a site of the usual broch and crannog period, is not invariably ascribed to forgery, even by the most orthodox archaeologists. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
They’d left the crannog and the marshes behind hours ago. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
A crannog containing objects of the stone, bronze, and iron ages. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
"leading from the 'central well' to the burn about 120 fee to west of centre of crannog.". From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
She was remembering the pulsing drumbeats she’d heard that morning and the desertion of the crannog today. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
Fidach and his men …the journey through the marshes …the crannog …her visit to Piye and Daka’s hut the night before. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
Still gasping and shaking and feeling as though she’d been dragged free of the quagmire around Fidach’s crannog, Isolde opened her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
A memory of Morgan’s face rose before her, though the image was shadowy, less clear than it had been nights ago in her hut at the crannog. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
And probably she’d now be back at the crannog, having decided to take her chances with Fidach’s men rather than be alone with him this way. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
She had waited until all sounds from the rest of the crannog had ceased, all the singing and shouts and laughter from Fidach’s hut dying into silence. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
Eurig’s eyes lifted once again, and she saw in his gaze the same shadow of pain as when she’d told the story of the fisherman and his selkie wife back at the crannog. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
She had left the door to the hut open to catch the last of the day’s waning light, and from where she sat now, she could see Fidach’s hut squatting like a great brown toad amidst the other, smaller dwellings of the crannog. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference
` funeral dirge, 'crannog from Irish crannog ` lake dwelling,' cromlech from Welsh cromlech from crom ` arched '+ llech. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2] Reference
The snow covered crannog at Craggaunowen today. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Lisnacroghera crannog, 45. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Age in Ireland] Reference
Lochlee crannog?. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
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