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certain cases at least this device may be derived from the conventionalized 

 human figure of the Spanish type, as we find it on the Cloonfinloch 

 stone, combined with concentric circles (fig. 1, a-c). The device on the stone 

 at the " Grates of Glory," near Dingle (fig. 1, e), may be a connecting link ; 

 compare also the Scandinavian rock-sculpturing figured in Juurnal, Eoy. Soe. 

 Antiq. of Ireland, xxvii, p. 46 (fig. l,f-i). This series of petroglyphs presents 

 an extraordinary resemblance to those of Galicia in North Spain, and even to 

 those of the Canary Islands. 



Fig. 1. 



E. — The Tumulus Sculptures. Series III. 



To this group belong the sculptures of New Grange, which consist of 

 broad lines, having the effect of throwing into relief the surface inter- 

 cepted between them. The kerbstone at the entrance to the passage is the 

 best example (Coffey, Plate III). 



'E.— The Twmulus Sculptures. Series IV. 



This group contains those figures in which the whole surface is pocked 

 over : New Grange, Series iv ; Dowth, Series in. "We may compare the 

 figure at the side of the stone at Carnwath,i which also seems to bear an older 

 series, analogous to group D. 



The quartered lozenge figure (p. 35, fig. IS), which belongs to this group, 

 is strongly reminiscent of the well-known idols of Spain in dice-box shape. 



G. — The Tumulus Sculptures. Series V. 



That all the tumulus sculptures in the preceding groups are of the bronze 

 age is shown, mter alia, by analogy with the decoration of the Folkton chalk 

 drums, which includes nearly all the motives of ornament in the Irish work. 

 There are, however, a few, as at Clover Hill and the central pattern of 

 stone D at Knockmany, which seem to foreshadow the style of La Tene, and 



Anderson, Scotland in Pagan Times, Stone and Bronze Ages, p. 88. 



