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Title: Archæology and false antiquities
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Munro, Robert, 1835-1920
Subjects: Archaeology Forgery of antiquities
Publisher: Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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in, and use. (3) THE SUBMARINE STRUCTURE AT LANGBANK Just as the Clyde controversy was becoming stale inlocal and quasi-archseological circles, the announcementof the discovery of another crannog on the Clydeestuary added a fresh element of expectancy to those whohad interested themselves in the difficulties raised by thenovel revelations of Dunbuie and Dumbuck. As regardsfunction and date of occupancy, as indicated by thesuperficial position and general arrangement of the wood-work, there can be no doubt that the chronologicalhorizon of this new site corresponds with that of Dum-buck. Its chief and almost only relics—the bone combwith Late Celtic ornamentation and the small brooch of 196 ARCHEOLOGY AND FALSE ANTIQUITIES brass or bronze (Plate XIL)—are also in harmony withthe post-Roman date of construction previously assignedto Dumbuck and Dunbuie, and having a possible rangeof from 400 to 1200 A.D. But while in the two formerstations there was not a single object which suggested
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Fig. 35. Bone Comb found on Ghegan Rock and Objectsassociated with it (y) a more definite position within that range, we have inthese two exceptionally interesting relics presumptiveevidence to fix the date of the occupancy of Langbankprobably nearer the distal than the proximal end of theabove-named range. As this question is by far the mostinteresting which the Clyde investigations have yet brought THE DISCOVERIES AT LANGBANK 197 on the field of discussion, we shall, as briefly as possible,look into its merits. First as to the comb. A comb(Fig. 35), ornamented with a Late Celtic pattern verysimilar to that on the Langbank specimen, was foundamong the ruins of a Romano-British habitation on the*Ghegan Rock, East Lothian.^ Ornamental toiletcombs have also been found on the sites of brochs,crannogs, kitchen middens, etc., of early mediaeval timesboth in Scotland and Ireland.^ The ornamentation onone of the combs found on the kitchen midden at Elie,^ asite of about the eighth century, m

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