Munro, Robert, 1835-1920 · Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs · leaf 278
y in the manu-facture of various objects of shale, jet, and cannel coalgoes back to the Neolithic period, and comes down tolate mediaeval times. Circular rings and discs of cannelcoal have been turned up in digging modern graves, as,for example, in the parish churchyard of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire… … Fig. 59. Piece of Slate with Stag Hunt (i) From St. Blanes, Bute rings were merely variants of the obolus—a tradition tothat effect being current in the district—writes that having been found only in some graves seems to indi-cate that the casting, both of rudely formed discs andbroken rings, into…
Archaeology · Forgery of antiquities
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
