Archæology and false antiquities (1906) (14784567625)

Identifier: archologyfalse00munr (find matches)

Title: Archæology and false antiquities

Year: 1906 (1900s)

Authors: Munro, Robert, 1835-1920

Subjects: Archaeology Forgery of antiquities

Publisher: Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Theshort wooden paddles may be too old to be comparable to the advanced navigation of the people of Dumbuck, asshown by the representation of a row-boat, with threeoarsmen, which looks like that of a man-of-war withtrained marines. Moreover, the presence of pieces of worked shale inthe form of rings, bracelets, discs, perforated portions, ^ Langbank was not then discovered. THE DISPUTED OBJECTS 239 etc., has been noted in nearly all the Scottish crannogshitherto investigated. Indeed, the industry in the manu-facture of various objects of shale, jet, and cannel coalgoes back to the Neolithic period, and comes down tolate mediaeval times. Circular rings and discs of cannelcoal have been turned up in digging modern graves, as,for example, in the parish churchyard of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire Here it has been recorded that in onegrave were seventeen discs and four broken rings ; inanother, sixteen discs and three broken rings. ProfessorDuns, D.D., in combating the idea that these discs and

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Fig. 59. Piece of Slate with Stag Hunt (i) From St. Blanes, Bute rings were merely variants of the obolus—a tradition tothat effect being current in the district—writes that having been found only in some graves seems to indi-cate that the casting, both of rudely formed discs andbroken rings, into these graves was intended to indicatethat they are the graves of a class of persons who werecharacterised by some moral or social peculiarities.^The slate and shale fragments at St. Blane, some of ^ Proc, S. A. Scot., xxviii. p. 127. 240 ARCHEOLOGY AND FALSE ANTIQUITIES which were perforated, can hardly be dated to any periodprior to the twelfth century. One of the more recent solutions of the Clyde puzzlewhich has come under my notice is thus described andrefuted by Mr. Lang in one of his numerous letters to the local press :— I am informed that the rude masks, or grotesque faces,have lately been attributed to the soldiers of the Roman occupa-tion, Satan finds some mischief still for i

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