Note 821 — Chapter XI · THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENÆ.

For instance, by Mr. W. J. Stillman, a traveller and a scholar. In the New York Nation (August 18) he writes on ‘The True Age of the Mykenæ Finds’; and, after a fresh examination, he declares the objects post-classical, ‘probably representing the burial-place of a colony of Celts between the fifth and the second century b.c.’ What chiefly militates against this theory is the cremation of the human remains.