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Biigge was led to the same conclusion bygcertain peculiarities 

 in the form of the Runes, and Mr. Jacobsen, by a consideration 

 of the Norwegian place names in. Shetland. Of particular 

 interest is a stone from Tu, in Jsederen, runes and probably the 

 figures show the peculiar characteristics of and may have been 

 influenced by the sculptures of the Isle of Man. Attention was 

 drawn to the much-discussed question of archaic ' Cup and Ring 

 Markings,' by the Rev. H. J. Dunkinfield Astley. Various 

 theories have been advanced as to the origin and meaning of 

 these widely-distributed markings. The suggestion that they 

 were connected with totemism, being analogous to the designs 

 on the ' churinga ' of the Arnnta did not meet with support 

 in the discussion which followed. 



Miss Layard, whose excellent work upon a Palaeolithic 

 site and Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Ipswich will be recalled 

 by many, has again been fortunate in discovering ' An ancient 

 land surface in a river terrace at Ipswich, and a palaeolithic 

 site in the Valley of the Lark.' A remarkable find was a ' core ' 

 of such excellent workmanship, that it suggested that the 

 ' core ' was the aim and intention of the worker rather than the 

 flakes struck off. 



A large number of reports were laid before the Section, but 

 owing to the number of papers, they were in almost all cases 

 taken as read. Of these, we single out for mention — ' The 

 Report of the Committee to report on the best means of register- 

 ing and classifying systematically Megalithic remains in the 

 British Isles,' owing to the fact that, although official com- 

 missions have been recently appointed to report on the historic 

 monuments of Scotland and Wales, neither England nor Ireland 

 is as yet provided with any official commission of this kind. 

 It is impossible to over-emphasise the serious risk to Mega- 

 lithic monuments — one of our most valuable natural heritages, 

 which results from the present utterly inadequate provisions 

 and ineffective working of the ' Ancient Monuments' Act. 



Finally, mention should be made of the interesting excur- 

 sion to the tumuli of Newgrange and Dowth, taking Monas- 

 terboice with its Celtic crosses en route. 



Throughout the whole meeting there was evidence on all 

 sides of the care bestowed on the arrangements by all the wor- 

 kers, and to this, together with the proverbial Hibernian 

 hospitality experienced by the visitors, the great success of the: 

 Dublin Meeting is due. 



1908 December i. 



