Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron AgeAnderson, Joseph
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Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age
Anderson, Joseph
Scotland -- Antiquities
“Few more interesting Archæological works have lately been published
than the ten ‘Rhind Lectures’ which make up Dr. Mitchell’s Volume, ‘The
Past in the Present.’ We must thank him heartily for the manner and the
method of his book, for the curious and valuable facts which he has
collected from personal observation, and for the admirable woodcuts
which adorn as well as illustrate his volume.”
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_In One Vol. Royal 8vo, with Maps, Plans, and numerous Illustrations
in Wood-Engraving and Chromolithography._
RESEARCHES
AND
EXCAVATIONS AT CARNAC
(MORBIHAN)
THE BOSSENNO AND MONT ST. MICHEL
BY JAMES MILN
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_EDINBURGH DAVID DOUGLAS_
1877
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_In One Vol. Royal 8vo, with Maps, Plans, and numerous Illustrations in
Wood-Engraving._
EXCAVATIONS AT CARNAC
(BRITTANY)
A RECORD OF ARCHÆOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN
THE ALIGNMENTS OF KERMARIO
BY JAMES MILN
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_EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS_
1881
MR. JAMES MILN’S ARCHÆOLOGICAL WORKS.
=_EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS._=
"Mr. Miln has made some interesting discoveries, and his record of them
is simply and modestly written. He seems to have spared no pains either
in making his excavations or in writing and illustrating an account of
them. The Bossenno at Carnac in Brittany was a heap of ruins of Roman
buildings, and though some attention had been already bestowed on the
Roman remains of the neighbourhood, it had not been previously explored.
Mr. Miln had thus an opportunity worthy of an ambitious archæologist,
and he succeeded in using it well. He is careful to commit himself to
few theories, and shows coolness and judgment in the presence of the
most attractive fields for speculation. He has brightened his pages,
however, by one or two interesting passages on modern customs among the
Breton peasantry which he can trace, as he seems to show, to remains of
the Pagan worship of their half-Romanised ancestors. The nocturnal
procession and fête of St. Carnely are very picturesquely described; and
the whole book, considering its subject, is wonderfully devoid of the
dryness we might expect in it."—_The Saturday Review._
"We have no space for remarks upon the glass, coins, fragments of iron
sword-blades, bronze statuette of an ox, spurious Samian ware, etc., or
upon the excavations at Mont St. Michel of foundations of a much later
date than the preceding. We must refer our readers to the work itself,
from which they will derive much interesting and useful
information."—_Academy._
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