Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries
by James Fergusson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fergusson, James, 1808-1886
- Title
- Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Sonya Schermann, Brian Wilsden, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GN: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Anthropology
- Subject
- Megalithic monuments
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54620
- Release Date
- April 28, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.RUDE STONE MONUMENTS IN ALL COUNTRIES; THEIR AGE AND USES .
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.RUDE STONE MONUMENTS. — INTRODUCTORY.
- 6.CHAPTER II. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. — Tumuli. — Dolmens. — Circles. — Avenues. — Menhirs.
- 7.CHAPTER III. — AVEBURY AND STONEHENGE. — Stonehenge.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. MINOR ENGLISH ANTIQUITIES. — Aylesford. — Ashdown. — Rollright. — Penrith. — Derbyshire. — Smaller Circles. — Dolmens.
- 9.CHAPTER V. IRELAND. — Moytura. — Cemeteries. — Lough Crew. — Dolmens.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. SCOTLAND. — Callernish.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. SCANDINAVIA AND NORTH GERMANY. — Introductory. — Battle-fields. — Tumuli. — Dolmens. — Drenthe.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. FRANCE. — Dolmens. — Carnac. — Locmariaker.
- 13.CHAPTER IX. SPAIN, PORTUGAL, AND ITALY. — Dolmens. — Portugal. — Italy.
- 14.CHAPTER X. ALGERIA. — Tripoli.
- 15.CHAPTER XI. MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS. — Malta. — Sardinia. — Balearic Islands.
- 16.CHAPTER XII. WESTERN ASIA. — Palestine.
- 17.CHAPTER XIII. INDIA. — Eastern India. — Western India. — Geographical Distribution. — Age of the Stone Monuments. — Comparison of Eastern with Western Dolmens. — Buddhism in the West.
- 18.CHAPTER XIV. AMERICA. — North America. — Central America. — Peru.
- 19.APPENDIX A.
- 20.APPENDIX B.
- 21.APPENDIX C.
- 22.LETTER FROM SIR H. DRYDEN, Bart. , TO THE Editor of the 'John o' Groat's Journal.' — INDEX. — WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
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