Rude stone monuments in all countries; their age and uses (1872)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 313
e of a findof coins, it is the date of the last piece that fixes the time of thedeposit. There may be coins in it a himdred or a thousand yearsolder, but this hoard cannot have been buried before the last piecewhich it contains was coined. So it is with this barrow. Thepresence of Eoman or… … by Dr. Thiirnam, The presence of flints and coarse pottery onlysliows, bnt it does so most convincingly, how utterly groundlessthe data are on which antiquaries have hitherto fixed the age ofthese monuments. It proves certainly that flints and shards weredeposited in tombs in Eoman or post-Roman…
Megalithic monuments
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