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The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain (1872)

Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908 · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 249

An illustration from The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain, 1872, leaf 249 — of Quoyness,+ Sanday, Orkney, and has been engraved. Many of the pestle-like stones are merely chipped into a somewhat cylindrical form, but others have been picked or gromid all over, so as to give them a circular or oval section. The ends in many instances arc more or less splintered, as if by… … ] ifC 1"J — MiLlliiil 20^ in * See liaing's "Prehistoric Remains of Caithness," 18C6. Pror. Soe. Ant. Scot., vol. vii. jMssim; viii. 64, pi. vi. Mem. Aiithrop. Soc. LovcL, vol. ii. p. 294; iii. 216. I am indebted to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for the loan of figs. 174 to 179. t Froc.…

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