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Rude stone monuments in all countries; their age and uses (1872)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 417

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r part of Etruria. ^ Satnrnia is situated tw™ty miles fromthe sea, and if it is true that nothing- of the sort is found elsewherein Italy, these dolmens must be looked upon as exceptional—theremains of some stray colony of dolmen-builders, the memoryof which has passed away, and may probably now be… … Dolmen at Saturnia. From Dennis ICtniria. grow out of rude-stone monuments. In no country in Europe arethe tumuli so numerous or so important as in Etruria, and, as beforementioned, tliey certainly extend back to an era twelve or thirteeucenturies before Christ. But if the dolmens of France or…

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