[53] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. v. (4th Series), pp. 327-336.--W. F. Wakeman.
[54] “The framework was composed of oak logs, as shown in the sketch (fig. 1. side elevation); the main sleepers, one on each side, were principal pieces, and rested on the sand. These logs were made from a large oak-tree, split in two, with the round part upwards; they measured, when put together, twenty-three inches in diameter and twenty-four feet in length; into these the upright pieces, or posts _B_ of the frame, were mortised, _p_; and the end of the post protruding through the mortise in the sleeper _A_, was forelocked by a large block of wood below, as shown, fig. 1. The mortises were roughly cut, as if they had been made by a kind of blunt instrument.… The planks which formed the sides _D_ were laid edgewise, one upon another, the lower one resting in a groove cut in the sleeper _A_, as shown in fig. 2, and the but-ends on a log of wood mortised into the framework, as in fig. 1. The planks butting home against the supports, … were more firmly fixed by the two uprights, which passed through a hole in the cross-beam _c_, fig. 1, and slipped into the mortise in the sleeper.”
[55] A somewhat similar “find” was dug up in one of the crannogs in Loch Dowalton, Wigtownshire.--_Ancient Lake Dwellings of Scotland_, p. 49.
[56] “These jambs, of which there were six at each extremity, stood on well-wrought foundation stones, but of course in a calcined state.”--Schlieman, _Troja_, p. 80.
[57] _Archæologia_, vol. xxvi. p. 361. _Dublin Journal_, p. 381-83, 1836.
[58] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. i. p. 269.
[59] _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_, pp. 31-2.
[60] Mr. Mackinlay, describing a crannog in Loch Quien in Bute, states that two rows of piles extended obliquely from it to the shore of the lake, between which the ground was covered with flat stones, “_not raised like a causeway_.”
[61] _Dublin Quarterly Journal of Science_, vol. vi. p. 69.
[63] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. ii. (4th Series), p. 435.
[64] _Geology of Ireland_, G. H. Kinahan, p. 276.
[65] _Proceedings R. I. A._ vol. vii. p. 154.
[67] A writer states that around the Crannog of Lough Ravel were found “a whole fleet of boats,” each cut out of a single trunk of oak; one was made fast to a stake of the crannog by a rude chain.