Waterland–People: On Structure and Origin of Crannogs ...

Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the following persons and institutions:
Mrs. Ruth Spence for providing me with a dozen or so possible landowner’s names and
phone numbers.
Mrs. Peggy McGray for access to her land and a chat or two (Wasdale Crannog).
Mr. Hamish Flett, Upper Hammer for access to his land (Bosquoy Crannog).
Mrs. Susan Ovenden for her immediate assistence and appreciation of the dissertation
theme.
Mr. Martin Carruthers for encouraging and supporting me and for his particular interest
in some fascinating details.
Mrs. Julie Gibson for her smile when she saw the 3D plots and for countless accesses to
the databases with recurring advice desires.
Mrs. Jacky Marwick for all the organisational preparations she made although Bretta
Ness was finally unaccessible, sorry.
Ms. Mary Saunders for her fearlessness data aquisition despite the continental heat and
some extra thanks for the great, great help she provided in kindly organizing, undertaking
and processing the survey with the new Trimble, puh.
Ms. Amanda Brend for some really nice talks during fieldwork and her instant help with
cable confusions.
Mrs. Anne Brundle for a good day in the archive.
Mr. Brian Rahn for his very presence and advices.
Mrs. Jane Downes for inviting me to Orkney and making this work possible.
Orkney College staff who really do understand, SAAS for financial support without this
would not have been possible and Bruce’s Stores for catching me.
This work is dedicated to my sister, Natali, who is my guiding star and my guardian
angel.
My Brother, Michael, for his visit in the rainiest of all summers and my parents, Gabi
and Eckhard Christen who never stop believing in me.
Personal friends who deserve many thanks as well are:
Ms Ni Pastille for making me feel home in her ways, her abundant company, her water
colour paintings and the ’eye skirt’.
Mr. Derrick Rendall for sharing his homely welcome and his toasts and salads and always
being there.
Mr. Magnus Watson for countless wonderful thoughts and his books and ideas.
Mr. Rognvald Leslie for his books, which were equally cool, his music and one night of
talks at the beach.
The Corriegalls, David, Iona and Ivonne for being my family.
Mr. Oliver Moeller for, although very far, always being with me and fthe right words at
the very right time.
All the people from Longhope for their freedom and their happyness but Mr. Robin
Thomson in particular for getting me out again and again.
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