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Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries

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Swansea, Arthur's Quoit at, 170.

Sweden, South, megalithic remains in, 15;

circles, 47;

dolmens in, 301.

Swen Grate, King, 291.

Sylhet, Mohammedan kingdom, 466.

Symbol stage, none in Ireland, 59.

Syria, trilithons in, 100.

TABLE-STONES, 435-6.

Tabriz circle, 453.

Tacitus cited as to three races in Britain, 162.

Tailten, Talton, or Telltown, burial of Irish kings there, 199;

of Lough Crew, 219 et seq.;

fair in honour of Magh Mor, King of Spain, 186.

Táin Bó Chuailgne, 196.

Talyots, or talayots, 434 et seq.;

in Balearic isles, 410, 415.

Tamulians not builders of rude-stone monuments in India, 477.

Tantalais tumulus, 32.

Tara, Hill of, remains at, 193;

early celebrity of, ib.;

capital of Firbolgs and Dananns, 190, whence the name, 382.

Tartar tombs, 451.

Taylor, Col. Meadows, cited as to Indian dolmens, 469;

and Shahpoor monuments, 485.

Teamair, wife of Heremon, 382.

Tee in Tope, 46;

in rock at Ajunta, 47, 491;

as connecting links between Eastern and Western dolmens, 489-90.

Temples, what structures not, 512;

megalithic remains not, 20 et seq.

Seemounds.

Teocallis, Mexican, what, 514.

"Things," meaning of word, 26.

Thomas, Lieut., his account of monuments in the Orkneys, 241, 248.

Thorfin, 250;

sons of, 528;

where buried, 249;

battle between them and Liotr, 528.

Three Ages, Danish doctrine of, 9;

illusive application of, 10.

Thunder-stone at Shap, 129, 130.

Thurnam, his work on British Skulls, 35, 36, 72;

his inference from finds, 165, 286;

as to West Kennet, 287.

Thyra, monument of Queen, 27, 250;

finds, 297.

Tia Huanaco, ruins at, not like those attributed to Druids, 518;

what they were, 519.

Tigernach, his date of Queen Meave's death, 184;

of Crimthann's, 190.

Tika received by Rajahs from Bhils, 459.

Tin, route of ancient British commerce in, 334.

Toda tribe in India, 459.

SeeBhil.

Toltecs, buildings of, 515.

Tollington, supposed avenue at, 117-9;

obelisks at, 117.

Tombs--of Alyattes, 3;

Atridæ, 32, 33;

Cocumella, 33;

Cœre, 33;

Regulini Galeassi, 34;

of great men marked by megalithic monuments, 15;

of Isidorus, 100;

Tartar, 451;

Nilgiri hills, 473.

Toope, Dr., his letter to Aubrey respecting Hakpen Hill, 76, 77.

Tooth-relic, worship of, 504.

Topes in India found blind, 80.

SeeDagoba.

Tormore, 261.

Towers, round, at Brechin and Abernethy, 271.

Town of the Stone of the Strangers, 229.

Tras os Montes dolmens, 378.

Tree-worship forbidden, 24, 25.

Trepucò talyot, 435.

Triads, Welsh authority for interments at Stonehenge, 110;

as to stone of Cetti, 173;

value of, as authority, ib.

Triangular monuments, 315;

perhaps cuneatus ordo of Olaus Magnus, ib.

Trie, holed dolmens, 343.

Trilithons at Stonehenge, 99;

connexion with dolmens, 100;

in Sligo, 108;

at Ksaea at Elkeb, 412;

Hauran, 445.

Tripoli, trilithons at Ksaea, 411;

Elkel with holes, 411-2;

compared to Hindu Yoni, 412;

Buddhist monument at Bangkok, 43.

Tuatha de Dananns, seeDananns.

Tuathal, authentic history begins with, 196;

"the accepted," 197.

Tumiac tumulus and find, 366.

Tumuli, 29;

different kinds of, ib.(seeBarrows, Pyramids, Tombs);

history of inhumation, 30;

Troy, 32;

Roman, 84;

truncated cones, ib.;

spoliation of their own ancestors' tombs by Northmen, 300;

Kemp How at Shap, 130;

find at, ib.;

chambered tumuli, 166, 168;

Freyrsö, 291;

certain Danish, identical with some in Auvergne, 323;

tumuli by thousands in the east of France, 327;

finds, ib.;

numerous in Etruria, 392;

peculiarity of tumuli in North Africa, 399;

plan and elevation of two sepulchral monuments, ib.;

not battle-field, 400;

quadruple circles, ib.;

tumuli chambered in Lydia and Kertch, 446;

kouloba on hill of cinders, ib.;

find there, 446-7;

tumuli in the Steppes, 448;

at Alexandropol, 450;

finds there, ib.;

uncovered base of, at Nikolajew, 451;

Tartar tumuli perhaps models of Western, 452.

Turanian origin of dolmens, theory of, how to be proved or

disproved, 448;

Turanian race in Europe, 507.

Twining's strange map theory, 76.

Tyrebagger, circle at, 263.

Tynwald Mount, 71.

Tyrrheni, seePelasgi.

U, buried dolmen at, 310;

chamber, 311.

Udyagiri Hills, Buddhist caves in, 460.

Uekermark, dolmen at, 301.

Uelzen, dolmen with enclosures near, 308.

Uffington Castle, monuments near, 121;

why constructed, 123.

Uley, 163;

chambered grave, 163, 166;

post-Roman, 289.

Ultonians, tombs of, 219, 220.

Upland, Danish prince killed at, 291.

Urn found in cairn of One Man, 179.

VAISALI, convocation at, 501.

Valdbygaards, two dolmens in enclosure, 308.

Vallancy, wild speculations of, 175, 207.

Vancouver's Island, natives of, whether mound-builders, 517.

Vannes, Museum of, 326.

Vedas, date of, 455.

Veneti, Cæsar's naval battle with, 20, 37;

hence what inference of age of monuments, 372;

iron nails used by, 37.

Verneilh, Felix de, his 'Byzantine Architecture in France,' 332.

Vestal Virgins, no just analogy of Nuns, to, 499.

Vetta, his name on Cat stone, 57;

supposed grandfather of Hengist and Horsa, 271.

Via Badonica, under Silbury Hill, 20.

Vicars, Mr., surveys Carnac, 350.

Vicramaditya, his capital, 459.

Viharas, early date and growth of, in India, 501.

Vikings, 303-4;

grave, 315, 317.

Vinland, America peopled through, 516.

Viraculls, what, 483.

Vitoria, dolmens in, 378.

Voguë's, De, plates of Roman tombs in the Hauran, 445.

Vortigern, victory of, at Aylesfor, 119.

Vulci, tomb at, 33.

WADEN HILL, where and what it is, site of what battle, 88-9.

Wales, Druids in, when 6;

dolmen-building race, 274.

Walhouse, Mr., cited, 479.

Walker, Mr., his find at Knock na Rea, 185.

Wansdyke, barrier against Welsh, 87, 88, 89.

Ware, statement of, as to Giant stones in Kildare, 108;

circles in, 162.

Waterloo, mound at, 56.

Wayland Smith's Cave in Berkshire, used by Scott in 'Kenilworth,' 122;

what it was, 123-4;

great circle there, 161.

Webb's reply to Dr. Charleton respecting Stonehenge, 3.

Welsh Gate, what and where it was, 87-89.

Welsh Triads, seeTriads.

West Kennet, 4;

its similarity to barrow in Denmark, 283 et seq.

SeeBarrow.

Western Islands, no Druids in, 6.

White Horse, near Uffington, described by Mr. T. Hughes, 121.

Wilde, Sir W., his residence at Moytura, 176;

his work, 177, 202 et seq.

Wildesheim, dolmen at, 301.

Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, observations on Long Meg, 127;

on Arbor Low, 139, and Gib Hill, 141;

his corrections to Croker's survey of Stanton Drew, 150;

dolmen at Gower opened by, 171.

Wilson, Captain, his survey of Clava, 265.

Wilson, Daniel, dolmen mentioned by, in Argyllshire, 273.

Wilson's 'Prehistoric Annals,' 239;

his remarks upon Daw's theory as to origin, 253.

Wiltshire, Sir R. C. Hoare's work on, 5.

Wisconsin and Ohio, how first peopled, 516.

Woden myth, its allusion to Indian

origin, 496;

Woden not Sakya Muni, 496.

Woking, principle of selection of, as cemetery, 131;

not applied by ancients, 131.

Wood worship forbidden, 25;

early employment of, in Indian architecture, 492.

Wood Castle, circle at, 129 note;

Arthur's battle there, 135.

Wormius Olaus, correspondence with Dr. Charleton respecting

Stonehenge, 3;

mentions dolmens with square enclosures, 307.

Worsaae cited as to Scandinavian monuments, 297 et seq.

Wright, Mr., account of monuments at Aylesford, 118.

SeeAylesford.

Written history, errors of, 113;

deficiency of, supplied by monuments, 113;

and by architectural study, 113;

uncertain accounts of King Arthur, 114.

Wurm Knot in Maes-Howe, 245.

YARHOUSE, battle at, 529.

Yarrow, inscription in stone at, 272.

Yucatan, 516;

carved stone monuments, 517.

Yule, Col., his 'Cathay,' 488 note.

ZANA, Queen, 404.

Zealand, seeBilk Valdbygaards.

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