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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
National Museums Scotland
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Edinburgh
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Scotland
J.Y. Simpson
PART I. VARIETIES IN THE SCULPTURES
CHAPTER I. Principal Types of the Cup and Ring Cuttings
Co-existence of Different Types
CHAPTER II. Some of the Chief Deviations from the Generic Types
CHAPTER III. Modes of Production of the Sculpture
PART II. LOCALITIES OF THE SCULPTURES
CHAPTER IV. On Stones Connected with Archaic Sepulture, as-
1. On Stones of Megalithic Circles
2. On Stones of Megalitliic Avenues
5. On Stone-Cists, and Covers of Urns
6. On Standing Stones, or Monoliths
CHAPTER V. On Stones Connected with Archaic Habitations, as-
7. In Weems, or Underground Houses
9. In and Near Ancient Towns and Camps
10. On the Surface of Isolated Rocks
On Isolated Stones
PART III. ANALOGOUS SCULPTURES IN OTHER COUNTRIES
CHAPTER VI. Lapidary Sculpturings in Ireland
CHAPTER VII. Lapidary Sculpturings in Brittany
CHAPTER VIII. Lapidary Sculpturings in Scandinavia
PART IV. GENERAL INFERENCES
CHAPTER IX. Import of the Ring and Cup Cuttings
CHAPTER X. Their Alleged Phoenician Origin
CHAPTER XI. Their Probable Ornamental Character
CHAPTER XII. Their Possibly Religious Character
CHAPTER XII. Question of their Age or Date
CHAPTER XIV. Their Precedence of Letters and Traditions
CHAPTER XV. Their Connection with Archaic Towns and Dwellings
CHAPTER XVI. Their Presence on the Stones of the most Ancient Kinds of Sepulture
CHAPTER XVII. The Archaic Character of the Contemporaneous Relics found in Combination with them
CHAPTER XVIII. The Kind of Tools Required for the Sculpturings
CHAPTER XIX. Their Antiquity, as shown by their Geographical Distribution in the British Islands
CHAPTER XX. The Race that first Introduced the Lapidary Ring and Cup Sculpturings
APPENDIX
NOTICES OF SOME ANCIENT SCULPTURES ON THE WALLS OF CAVES IN FIFE