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Ancient Man in Britain

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Head of a Crô-Magnon Man Frontispiece

Examples of Lower Palæolithic Industries found in England 12

Western Europe during the Third Inter-glacial Epoch 16

Examples of Palæolithic Art 56

Flint Lance Heads from Ireland 80

Chipped and Polished Artifacts from Southern England 80

The Ring of Stennis, Orkney 96

Megaliths—Kit's Coty House, Kent; Trethevy Stone, Cornwall 100

Enamelled Bronze Shield 116

European Types 124

Ruins of Pictish Tower at Carloway, Lewis 128

A Scottish "Broch" (Mousa, Shetland Isles) 132

A Sardinian Nuraghe 136

Megaliths—Dolmen, near Birori, Sardinia; Tynewydd Dolmen 160

One of the Great Trilithons, Stonehenge 172

Bronze Urn and Cauldron 204

Bronze Bucklers or Shields 224

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Chellean Coup de Poing or "Hand Axe" 14

Upper Palæolithic Implements 21

Skull of a Crô-Magnon Man: front and side views 24

Outline of a Mammoth 33

Necklace of Sea Shells 39

Geometric or "Pygmy" Flints 54

A Notable Example of late Magdalenian Culture 58

Horn and Bone Implements 59

Sketch of a boat, and crude drawing of a similar boat 75

Map of ENGLAND & WALES 82

Long-head (Dolichocephalic) Skull 88

Broad-head (Brachycephalic) Skull 88

Beads from Bronze Age Barrows 105

Weapons and Religious Objects 114

Cult Animals and "Wonder Beasts" 154

Diagram of the Gaelic Airts 169

Seal of City of Glasgow 185

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