The past in the present: what is civilisation? (1880)
Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-1909 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 146
attish, irregularly-shaped,water-worn piece of sandstone, 5 \inches long, about 3 \ inches broad,and about f of an inch thick,with a hole through it at one end,by which it was tied loosely be-tween the horns of a cow, to pre-vent her from Starting and run- rudely picked through from both ning away… … Fig. 90.—Stone fastened be-tween a cows horns in Shet-land. The hole, which is about1 inch in diameter, has been 124 THE PAST IN THE PRESENT. was placed in the local museum to explain the probablepurpose of a stone of exactly the same character, which hadbeen found in circumstances leaving little…
Archaeology · Civilization
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