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Pre-historic

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  • Broch of Mousa, Scotland.
  • Pottery and weapons found in a grave in Alsace.
  • Stone circle at Inveranran, Glanfalloch, Perthshire. P.S.A.S.
  • Iron Age grave at Aylesford, Kent.
  • Pottery from Cowdenbeath, Fife.
  • Five views of Skara Brae Bronze Age village, Orkney.
  • Prehistoric rock painting representing rain ceremony.
  • Part of great skull burial at Ofnet, Bavaria. Copied from Hugo Obermaier, Fossil man in Spain, Newhaven, 1924, figure 143, page 338. (After F.R. Schmidt). Mesolithic level.
  • Pit burial shown in section, Cumieres (Meuse), France. Neolithic people, having worked out a flint-mine, used the excavation as a grave.
  • Disposal of the dead, Iron Age.
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    Burial scene prepresented in rock-painting, Zimbabwe.

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    Prehistoric rock painting representing rain ceremony.

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    Pit burial at Liury-sur-Vesle (Marne).

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    Broch of Mousa, Scotland.

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    Iron Age grave at Aylesford, Kent.

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