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Excavation Details Description Artefacts included many wooden objects, including a paddle, a bucket, a scoop, several bowls, a trough, a spoon and a spindle-whorl. Pottery included several pieces of E-ware. Also found on the crannog site was a bronze brooch of 8th century style, which had once contained amber which was probably imported from the Baltic. Evidence of metal working was found, including a crucible and some pieces of slag. Numerous leather fragments were found, indicating that there was a leather workshop at the site. Some pieces of worked leather were at first identified as having once formed a 'jerkin'. This has recently been called into question and preservation and new analysis of these pieces by AOC Archaeology suggest that they may in fact be part of a book-satchel. (1) The stretch marks on the leather where the straps were once attached are now visible. The appearance of a book-satchel may indicate the presence of clergy or monks at the crannog - they were the men who used books - but there is no need to assume that they were ordinarily resident there. There are many church-sites [link to 'Monastic and Episcopal' essay] n the Kilmartin Glen and beyond from which a cleric may have come to Loch Glashan. The presence of many other leather fragments, some of them extremely thin, may also suggest Loch Glashan crannog was producing that extra fine skin or 'vellum' which was used for making manuscripts. Notes: 1 The identification of the leather fragments as a jerkin was first questioned by Dr Colleen Batey of Glasgow, and the preservation and analysis of the material, and the suggestion that it is the remains of a book satchel, were the References
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