Bow-water

Two miles south of lake midden lay Bowater ("Lin Luiva"), one of the main breeding grounds for cranes and grebes. The Bowater was a clear and relatively clean stretch of water once the course of the river and later abandoned to slowly silt up. Vegetation here was often thick with tall irises, bell-rushes, reeds and horsetails hung about with mosses and lichen, and much undergrowth. The waters were home to many small ﬁsh and pike. Bowater was sometimes plagued with lampreys and all the streams had a good population of leeches.