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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. x. 



the Boeotian festivals, or those worshipped by the 

 Hindus. 1 



Hollows or cups for the reception of the offerings to 

 the spirits of the dead are recorded by Sir James Simp- 

 son 2 on several megalithic circles and avenues, as well 

 as on menhirs, and the stones of cromlechs, and cham- 

 bered tumuli. Some of these probably belong to the 

 Bronze as well as to the Neolithic age. 



Artistic Designs. 



The designs on articles of the Bronze age in Britain 

 and Ireland are nearly all geometric, and animal forms 

 are not represented. They are either stamped, cast, or 

 engraved on metal, or stamped or moulded on pottery. 

 Those figured below (Fig. 146) represent the principal 



o 



a b c d e f g 



FIG. 146. Designs of Bronze Age in France and Britain. 



patterns of the Bronze age noted in France by M. 

 Chantre : the whole of the first column and of the third, 



1 Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii. p. 151. Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation, 

 p. 222. Elliot, Journ. Ethnol Soc. Lond., i. p. 94. 



2 Archaic Sculpturing s, Edinburgh, 1867. 



