A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . 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 Fig. 12.—Ground-plan of Eoad broch, Keiss, Caithness. The most distinctive among these are no doubt of Late Keltic origin, and fragments of Samian ware point unmistakably to con-tact vp^ith Eoman civilisation ; but, on the other hand, a number 36 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 6, 7 of painted pebbles have been found in three
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . 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 Fig. 12.—Ground-plan of Eoad broch, Keiss, Caithness. The most distinctive among these are no doubt of Late Keltic origin, and fragments of Samian ware point unmistakably to con-tact vp^ith Eoman civilisation ; but, on the other hand, a number 36 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 6, 7 of painted pebbles have been found in three of the Keiss brochs,remarkably like those from Mas dAzil, in the Pyrenees, whichdate from the transition between the palaeolithic and neolithicperiods. The excavations are published by Dr. Joseph Anderson,of Edinburgh, who describes the typical broch as a huge dry-builtcircular tower, rising on a base of aljout 60 ft. in diameter to a
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