This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...or colonizations preserved in the ancient manuscripts of Ireland, it is not possible to bring forward evidence from literary sources of intercourse between Scandinavia and Great Britain and Ireland in remote ages. We must rely, therefore, on archaeological evidence. Fortunately the latter is sufficient. It is necessary ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...or colonizations preserved in the ancient manuscripts of Ireland, it is not possible to bring forward evidence from literary sources of intercourse between Scandinavia and Great Britain and Ireland in remote ages. We must rely, therefore, on archaeological evidence. Fortunately the latter is sufficient. It is necessary that this should be made clear before we resume the story of the patterns. Professor Montelius has collected a considerable body of evidence on the connexion between Scandinavia and the west of Europe in pre-historic times.1 Objects of recognised western types found in Denmark and Sweden, but rare in those countries, must, he considers, be regarded as of foreign origin, and as evidence of early relations with the West. Evidence of this class remounts to the close of the Stone Age. For the Stone Age he refers to certain forms of conical buttons, arm guards, and sepulchral vessels known as "drinking cups"; also chambered barrows with holed entrance stones. Some or all of these types are found in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and on the Continent they can be traced from the north-west as far south as the Spanish peninsula. It is worthy of note that the drinking-cup type, numerous examples of which have been found in England and Scotland, is, if not absent, excessively rare in Ireland. As far as I can learn no certain example is recorded.' In Ireland it is replaced by the low bowl-shaped vessels so frequently associated with unburnt interments--a type not represented in England or Scotland. The drinking cup may reach back to the close of the Stone Age in Britain, as its association with unburnt interments would seem to 1 "Verbindungen zwischen Skandinavien und dem westlichen Europa vor Christi Geburt."--Archivfur Anthropolog...
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