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

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 489

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erected in their honour. The centre stone generally is crowned bya capital, or turban-like ornament, and sometimes two are joined 1 Schlagintweit, in Ausland, No. 23, 1870, pp. 530 et seqq. - Asiatic Kesearckes, xvii. p. 502. 3 Major Godwin Ansten, Journal Anthrop. Institute, i. p. 127. 464 INDIA.… … Menhirs and Tables. From Schlacintwcit. number with which an old lady had previously been honoured, inconsequence of the services which after her death she had renderedto her tribe.1 The origin of the stone tables or dolmens is not so clearly made

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