Manners and monuments of prehistoric peoples (1892)
Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de, 1818-1904, D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 209
side,showing eithei that this form of monument was earlyadopted by Christians, or more probably, that it wasadapted to their use after having long previously beena relic of prehistoric times. On the other side ofSwenos pillar is a bas-relief of fairly good execution. In some cases menhirs mark the… … MEGALITIIIC MONUMENTS. 187 the battle of Largs, wliicli took place in the thirteenthcentury, and a piously preserved legend tells how themenhir of Aberlemmo was set up in honor of a victoryover the Danes in the tenth century. Some arclueologists, in view of the sha[)e of certainmenhirs and the…
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