Chapter IV: Section II: Historical and Traditional Phenomena associated

with the area of their distribution._ SECTION III. _Structure of
Wooden Islands_--Neglected by previous writers--Mechanical skill
displayed by the Crannog-builders--Mode of Structure. SECTION
IV. _Topographical changes in the Lake-dwelling area during or
subsequent to the period of their development_,--Supposed change in
climate and its effects--Increase of Lake Silt--Subsidence of the
Crannogs. SECTION V. _Chronological, Social, and other indications
derived from the Relics_,--Discoveries of Relics confined almost
to the Counties of Ayr and Wigtown--Roman and Celtic elements
exhibited by Relics--General _facies_ of Relics similar to
ordinary Celtic remains in Scotland and Ireland--Canoes not
necessarily belonging to Prehistoric remains--Difficulty of drawing
reliable conclusion from the Pottery of the Crannogs--Crannogs
in South-west of Scotland were used as _safes_--Their occupiers
lived on the produce of agriculture rather than that of the
chase--Came to an end as a system of defence upon the conquest of
the country by the Saxons--Relics from the Lake-dwellings similar
to those from the Victoria Cave, Yorkshire, and the Borness Cave,
Kirkcudbrightshire--No evidence as to the age of Crannogs beyond
the limits of the ancient Kingdom of Strathclyde Pages 240-288

CHAPTER VI.

REMAINS OF LAKE-DWELLINGS IN ENGLAND.

Sir Charles J. F. Bunbury on remains at Wretham Mere, Norfolk--Pile
Structures at London Wall--Crannog in Llangorse Lake, South
Wales--Professor Boyd Dawkins on Pile Structures in the Bronze
Age--Professor T. Rupert Jones on English Lake-Dwellings--Pile
Structures at Holderness, York--Concluding Remarks--Hypothesis
as to primary source of the ideas that led to the development of
British Lake-Dwellings Pages 289-303