Archaeology and False Antiquities (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...concentric but incompleted circles round the perforation, from which also runs a stem line with little nicks on one side suggestive of ogams. There are also on the same surface two incised figures, probably intended to represent fragments of deer-horn. The conjecture that the Dumbuck structure had something to do with the early navigation of the Clyde is rather strengthened by the Langbank discovery; and should this surmise be correct the probability is that other analogous sites exist in the Clyde basin. TWO SHAl.E OBJECTS, A BONE COMB AND A SMALL PENANNULAR FIBULA OF BRONZE OR BRASS FOUND AT LANC.BANK ALL J ACTUAL Sl/3 (from a drawing by H'../. Poiiitfltyj CHAPTER V THE CLYDE CONTROVERSY IF it could be supposed possible to characterise a series of incidents arising out of the ordinary "dry-asdust " materials of archaeology'as a "tangled skein," the story of the Clyde controversy would be the first to justify the supposition. The question raised by the grotesque "idols" and the other novel objects which form the subject-matter of this controversy is the most important that has ever cropped up on the field of Scottish archaeology, as it involves the consideration of a new civilisation within proto-historic times of which hitherto both historians and archaeologists were equally ignorant. Although it is about eight years since it first presented itself in the form of a small cloud on the archaeological horizon, its real significance does not yet appear to be fully understood, for if the materials in question be accepted as genuine the whole fabric of vScottish archaeology goes into the melting-pot. Dating from 1896, with the investigation of the hill-fort of Dunbuie, the controversy has trailed along, in a desultory manner, through a...