Archæological and historical collections relating to Ayrshire & Galloway (1878)
Ayrshire and Galloway Archaeological Association · Edinburgh, Printed for the Ayrshire and Galloway archæological association · leaf 184
ther membersof the Ayrshire and Wigtonshire Archseological Association. That the increased firmness and consolidation, which had taken placesince 1880, was due to shrinkage, was very apparent from the appearancepresented by the upright piles, which formerly l^arely projected above thespongy mud,… … Fig. 38.—Shale Ring. Natural size. undergone. Their number was also most remarkable, so much so, indeed,that it was resolved to have the whole island photographed, as the merecounting of such a forest of uprights, not to si^eak of a sketch which wasalso spoken of, was considered too formidable a…
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