THE AOTIQUITIES OF BUTE. 



145. THE Antiquities of the Island of Bute, in common 

 with tbose wldei. are found in moat of the islands in the 

 British seas, are interesting, not so much from their 

 extent as Ikiii variety, and the [local peculiarities which 



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 remains, which dinner little from those of the same period 

 tkroagjhoaA fiarope and a. great part of the East, as in the 

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 wiA in tne western part of Europe, from Icelan d to Corn- 

 waDL Hmny of these islands, irtiliili il from the eighth 

 caatamy by the iliiii|ilni of 8t fntrick and St. Coiamba, had 

 been previonvly oecopked by the noe who erected tbe 

 ciich% MmoHsh^ and cnoH Ant atffl odbt In a brief 

 acoomnt like the present, it woald be out of place to enter 

 into a detailed deacription of aO the prehistoric objects in 

 B^ eapecxaDy as it too often occors that the merest tcace* 



and afipeaiancie, therefore, of the 

 these antiqnitie of the prehistoric age 

 wiD only be given here, reserving far the later and historical 





14&. The ntoat interesting saomuncnts of this age in the 

 the atone aide* of Kicgarth and 84. CaLugs, or 

 t it is nanHod n Ae Ordnance avap. 



