. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. ar labyrinth, but no actual design of the conventionalCretan type has been discovered. In Figs. 129 and 130are seen examples found on rocks at Routing Linn andOld Bewick respectively. The engravings are as muchas three or four feet in diameter, and in many cases areinterconnected by grooves which terminate at their cup-like centres. They often coalesce and interconnect to formmazy patterns of great complexity. The greater numberconsist merely of a series of concentric circles around acentral cup, the circles in some c
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. ar labyrinth, but no actual design of the conventionalCretan type has been discovered. In Figs. 129 and 130are seen examples found on rocks at Routing Linn andOld Bewick respectively. The engravings are as muchas three or four feet in diameter, and in many cases areinterconnected by grooves which terminate at their cup-like centres. They often coalesce and interconnect to formmazy patterns of great complexity. The greater numberconsist merely of a series of concentric circles around acentral cup, the circles in some cases being interruptedalong a radial line which is generally occupied by a straightgroove. Their origin and purpose are very obscure. Very similar rock engravings have been found, thoughnot in such profusion, in other parts of Great Britain, asfar north as the Orkneys, and as far south as Devonshire,and also in the south of Ireland. In other parts of Irelandthe engravings have chiefly the shape of a simple spiral. There is strong suggestion of the labyrinth idea in the152. Fig. 129. Rock Engravings, Routing Linn, Northumberland.(G. Tate in Proc. Berwick Naturalists Club, 1864)
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