Crossword-Solution: CRANNOGS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Keller in the Palafites or Crannogs of Switzerland; and the Hindu’s Agni-Astar (“fire-weapon”), Agni-bán (“fire-arrow”) and Shatagni (“hundred-killer ”), like the Roman Phalarica, and the Greek fire of Byzantium, suggest explosives.

CHAPTER IV PIT AND PILE DWELLINGS Pit dwelling earliest form of house-building--Discoveries at Bright-hampton, Worlebury--British oppida--Hurstbourne--Contents of pit dwelling--Pot-boilers--Condition of civilisation--Pile dwellings-- Switzerland--Glastonbury--Hedsor--Crannogs--Modern use of pile dwellings--Description of a lake dwelling--Contents--Bronze Age-- Recent discoveries at Glastonbury.

Such groups of dwellings were called _Crannogs_; they existed in Ireland from the earliest historical period and continued in use down to the time of Queen Elizabeth.

This binding together of the wooden structures is a well-known feature in crannogs, as was demonstrated by my investigations at Lochlee and elsewhere.

Munro, the one most learned authority on "Lake Dwellings," or "Crannogs," does not think that the sites were ever occupied by regular "crannogs," or lacustrine settlements, Lake Dwellings.