[Footnote 1: What is really wanted now is, a "Megalithic Monument Publication Society." After the meeting of the Prehistoric Congress at Norwich, a committee for this purpose was formed in conjunction with the Ethnological Society. After several meetings everything was arranged and settled, but, alas! there were no funds to meet the necessary expenses, or, at least, risk of publication, and the whole thing fell through. To do what is wanted on a really efficient scale a payment or a guarantee of 1000_l._ would be necessary, and that is far beyond what is attainable in this poor country. If it could be obtained, the materials are abundant. Sir Henry Dryden alone could fill a volume with the materials he already possesses; and Lieut. Oliver, Mr. Conwell, and others, have drawings sufficient to keep the society at work for a long time.] CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTORY 1 CHAPTER II. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. Tumuli--Dolmens--Circles--Avenues --Menhirs 29 CHAPTER III. ENGLAND. Avebury and Stonehenge 61 CHAPTER IV. MINOR ENGLISH ANTIQUITIES. Aylesford--Ashdown-- Rollright--Penrith--Derbyshire--Stanton Drew--Smaller Circles--Dolmens 116 CHAPTER V. IRELAND. Moytura--Cemeteries--Boyne--Lough Crew--Clover Hill--Dolmens 175 CHAPTER VI. SCOTLAND. Orkney Stone Circles--Orkney Barrows-- Maes-Howe Dragon and Serpent-Knot--Holed Stone of Stennis--Callernish--Aberdeenshire Circles--Fiddes Hill--Clava Mounds--Stone at Aberlemmo--Sculptured Stones--Crosses in Isle of Man 239 CHAPTER VII. SCANDINAVIA AND NORTH GERMANY. Introductory-- Battle-fields--Harald Hildetand's Tomb--Long Barrows-- Tumuli--Dolmens--Drenthe: Hunebeds 275 CHAPTER VIII. FRANCE. Introductory--Distribution of Dolmens--Age of Dolmens--Grottes des Fées--Demi-Dolmens--Rocking Stones-- Carnac--Locmariaker--Alignments at Crozon--Age of the Monuments--What are these Monuments?--They must be Trophies--Time of the Fight--M. Bertrand's List of Dolmens in Thirty-one Departments of France 325 CHAPTER IX. SPAIN, PORTUGAL, AND ITALY. Introductory--Dolmens-- Portugal--Italy 377 CHAPTER X. ALGERIA AND TRIPOLI. Introductory--Bazinas and Chouchas-- Free-Standing Dolmens--Age of Dolmens--Circle near Bona-- The Nasamones--Origin of African Dolmen-builders--Tripoli: Trilithons--Buddhist Monument at Bangkok 395 CHAPTER XI. MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS. Malta--Sardinia--Balearic Islands 415 CHAPTER XII.