A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fio. 10.—Plan of workshop, Ty Mawr, Holyhead, a. fire-place ; h, plat-form ; c, hole containing sharpening-stones; d, pounding-stone; e, hole;/, fireplace and chimney ; g, rubbing-stone ; h, mortar. in connection Avitli Roman coins of the first and second centuries,as well as Samian ware and cinerary urns of Roman quern or hand-mill is generally held to have been introducedabout the Christian era, and Agricola is known to have conqueredand settled Anglesey about a. d. 78 ; but though
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fio. 10.—Plan of workshop, Ty Mawr, Holyhead, a. fire-place ; h, plat-form ; c, hole containing sharpening-stones; d, pounding-stone; e, hole;/, fireplace and chimney ; g, rubbing-stone ; h, mortar. in connection Avitli Roman coins of the first and second centuries,as well as Samian ware and cinerary urns of Roman quern or hand-mill is generally held to have been introducedabout the Christian era, and Agricola is known to have conqueredand settled Anglesey about a. d. 78 ; but though these remains,like a carnelian intaglio found at Forth Dafarch, are undeniablyconnected with Roman civilisation, there can be no doubt as tothe much earlier date of many of the structures. Cases 6, 7. Below is a series of stone antiquities from several brochs exca-vated by Sir Francis Tress Barry near Keiss, on the coast of SCOTLAND 35 Caithness. No precise date has yet been assigned to these struc-tures, but they were evidently occupied for defensive purposes at. Fig. 11.—Dun Telvo broch, Glenelg, Inverness-shire. different periods and gradually filled up, so that objects of widelydifferent dates may be sometimes found together in the ruins.
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