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Archæology and false antiquities (1906)

Munro, Robert, 1835-1920 · Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs · leaf 220

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ch are familiarlyknown to archaeological science from their frequentoccurrence in other sites of early occupation, are twowhich have a special chronological value, viz. an under-stone of a quern and a tracked stone (Fig. 34). Boththese objects are characteristic of the early Iron Age,no specimen of… … Fig. 34. Tracked Stone from Dumbuck (|) skill. It appears to have been first used in France duringthe later Marnian, or La Tene, period (Late Celticof the British Isles). It is the immediate successor tothe saddle quern, which consisted of two flat stones,the upper being used to crush the grain by…

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