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sound form of reasoning to compare petroglyphs in Northern Europe with 

 the ornamentation of ceramics and of metal objects of a different centre of 

 civilization, when no comparable specimens of the latter types of object have 

 come to light in the north. 



4. There is, however, one analogy which I cannot reject, namely, that 

 between the Irish sculptured galleries and Gavrinis. I should even go so 

 far as to call Gavrinis an Irish monument, in the same sense as the mounds 

 of Armorica erected over the ship-burials of the northern pirates are called 

 Scandinavian. 



Note added in Press. 



Since the above paper was presented to the Academy, Mr. Burkitt has 

 published in his volume entitled PreMstory (Cambridge University Press), 

 plate XL, three photographs of engravings at Sess Kilgreen, 



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