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... Roman and British pottery have been found in it ; but the best antiquaries are of opinion that the circles belong to the Bronze Age , and to a late period even in it . Bronze Age barrows surround it , belonging , as is shown by the ...
... Roman and British pottery have been found in it ; but the best antiquaries are of opinion that the circles belong to the Bronze Age , and to a late period even in it . Bronze Age barrows surround it , belonging , as is shown by the ...
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... Roman and Greek history know them not - we except the Cyclopean tombs of Mycenae and their mythic history ; and even the references in early Christian times are too vague to be of any satisfactory use ; and should we grant the stone ...
... Roman and Greek history know them not - we except the Cyclopean tombs of Mycenae and their mythic history ; and even the references in early Christian times are too vague to be of any satisfactory use ; and should we grant the stone ...
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... Roman writers do not describe any Celtic or Druidic temple , as far as I know ; the inference from this might be that the Celtic temples were like the Roman temples , or more probably like the Celtic houses " great houses , " as Strabo ...
... Roman writers do not describe any Celtic or Druidic temple , as far as I know ; the inference from this might be that the Celtic temples were like the Roman temples , or more probably like the Celtic houses " great houses , " as Strabo ...
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... Roman type , with stone houses , temples , and such like ; but rural Gaul and Britain con- tented themselves with wooden houses and wooden fortifications— stockaded clearings or strong hill positions . They seem to have done little in ...
... Roman type , with stone houses , temples , and such like ; but rural Gaul and Britain con- tented themselves with wooden houses and wooden fortifications— stockaded clearings or strong hill positions . They seem to have done little in ...
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... Roman and Greek writers , in Gaul . Homer represents Achilles as placing the fat of many sheep and oxen , whose carcases were heaped round the pyre , about the body of Patroclus , from head to foot . He set vessels with honey and oil ...
... Roman and Greek writers , in Gaul . Homer represents Achilles as placing the fat of many sheep and oxen , whose carcases were heaped round the pyre , about the body of Patroclus , from head to foot . He set vessels with honey and oil ...
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acus agus Alex Alexander ancient appears Applause Aryan Aryan races Atholl bard birds Book of Deer burial Cæsar cairns Cameron Campbell Celtic Celts century chambered cairns Cheers chief Church Colin Chisholm Columcille crofters districts ditto ditto dolmens Domnall dorat Drostan Druids Duncan Duncan Macrae eagle English Fraser gach Gael Gaelic names Gaelic Society Gaelic-speaking Gairloch Gauls Grant hear Highlands honour Inverness Inverness-shire Ireland John King Kintail land language Laughter literature Lochiel Lord Macdonald Mackay Mackenzie Mackintosh Macleod Macrae meeting minister Mormaer Mormaer of Buchan mound Munro O.Ir Old Irish parish Picts poetry Presbytery present prop proprietors race refer ring cairn Roman root Ross rude stone Scotland sing Sir Robert song stone circles tion toast Welsh word worship
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