Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vol. vii. p. 168 _n._ This
appears to me to be a phonetic spelling of the _diongna_ mentioned in
the passage relating to the plunderings of the Danes in the ninth
century.]
[Footnote 62: _Ibid._ p. 171. On the same page, the form _Ugh talamkant_
is given.]
[Footnote 63: _Chambers's Encyclopaedia_, new ed., s.v. Earth-house.]
[Footnote 64: Quoted in _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vii. 172. The
reference is "Ag. Rep. Heb. p. 782."]
[Footnote 65: _Op. cit._ vol. iii. p. 140.]
[Footnote 66: John Stuart, LL.D., _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, viii. pp.
23 _et seq._]
[Footnote 67: Plates XIV.-XVI. Compare also Plates XVII.-XIX.]
[Footnote 68: _Op. cit._, vii. 191.]
[Footnote 69: _Op. cit._, iii. 133.]
[Footnote 70: _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_,
vol. iii. (First Series), p. 129. The district of Barvas is specially
referred to by Captain Thomas.]
APPENDIX.
Most of the illustrations here given are reproductions of some of the
plates accompanying Captain Thomas's papers in the _Proceedings of the
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_. In explanation of their details the
following extracts may be made.
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