. Archæology and false antiquities. nd from their debris theobjects in question were disinterred. Indrawing Mr. Langs attention to these objectswhen showing him the Dumbuck relics inthe National Museum, it never dawned onme that his searching glances had detectedany art elements common to them and the queer things of the Clyde sites. The assortment of objects collected amongthe debris of the inhabited sites at St. Blaneschurch consists of a number of quartzitehammer-stones, a few whetstones (one neatlyperforated for suspension), polishers, a whorlof steatite, portion of a mould of sandstone,pa
. Archæology and false antiquities. nd from their debris theobjects in question were disinterred. Indrawing Mr. Langs attention to these objectswhen showing him the Dumbuck relics inthe National Museum, it never dawned onme that his searching glances had detectedany art elements common to them and the queer things of the Clyde sites. The assortment of objects collected amongthe debris of the inhabited sites at St. Blaneschurch consists of a number of quartzitehammer-stones, a few whetstones (one neatlyperforated for suspension), polishers, a whorlof steatite, portion of a mould of sandstone,part of a jet armlet, rings of shale (bothfinished and unfinished), together with somedozen fragments of shale showing tracesof workmanship. One splinter had a smallcross on one side, and the letters DA onOf slate fragments there were several. Onesurfaces ornamented with rudely scratchedscrolls and a few alphabetic letters in old Irish script(see Dr. Joseph Andersons description of them).^ Two ^ Proc. S. A. Scot., vol. xxxiv. p. Fig. 51. Figure OF Shale froji Dumbuck (!) From Drawing byW. A. Donnelly the other,had both THE DISPUTED OBJECTS
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