Pre-historic times: as illustrated by ancient remains and the manners and customs of modern savages (1900)
Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913 · London, Edinburgh [etc.] : Williams and Norgate · leaf 195
riments, however, as Messrs. Bertrand and de Mortillethave shown me, prove that the stone can be cut with flint,,while bronze produces no effect on it. Sir James Y. Simpsonalso has shown that the engravings on the Scotch rocks, eventhose on granite, may have been carved with a flint tool, f *… … AVEBURY AND SILBURY HILL. Ill In this country we still habitually call the megalithicmonuments Druidical, but it is hardly necessary to men-tion that there is really no sufficient reason for connectingthem with Druidical worship. The greatest of all so-called Druidical monuments is thetemple of…
Archaeology · Primitive societies
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