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XIX.—Observations on the Celtic Megaliths, and the contents of Celtic Tombs, chiefly as they remain in the Channel Islands, by Frederick Collings Lukis, M.D. In a Letter to the Viscount Mahon, President

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Frederick Collings Lukis
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Few of the structural works of former years require more patient and careful investigation than those generally attributed to the Celtic People.

It is very remarkable that, while some classical writers have alluded to their religious rites and ceremonies, they scarcely notice the stone structures, and are silent on their sepulchres and modes of burying the dead.

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Archaeologia , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , 1854 , pp. 232 - 258
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1854

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page 236 note a Compare Genesis xxviii. 18, 22, memorial; xxxi. 51, 52, boundary; and xxxv. 14, 20, which is monumental: Levit. xxvi. 1, Deut. xvi. 22, ceremonial; Judges ix. 6. Absalom's pillar, 2 Sam. xviii. 18. Pillar of witness or agreement, Isaiah xix. 19; Exodus xxiv. 4; Deut. vii. 5, xii. 3; Jos. iv. 5, xv. 6, xviii. 17; xxiv. 26, 27; 1 Sam. vi. 14, 15, 18, vii. 12, xx. 19; Pr. xxiii. 10; Jer. ii. 27.

page 237 note a Archæologia: Observations on the Dracontia, by the Rev. John Bathurst Deane.

page 238 note a See Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, by D. Wilson, Esq., p. 109, et seq.

page 257 note a It is remarkable that those discs which we have seen in Normandy correspond precisely, in shape and size, with one taken fourteen feet below the surface, in a submarine forest on the coast of Guernsey. It is doubtful whether the metallic armlet, the only instance of metal, belongs to this period; and, with the jet bracelet, it must have been an importation.