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Rude stone monuments in all countries

their age and uses.

Also known as Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses

by James Fergusson

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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One of the most interesting of antiquarian studies is that which relates to the origin and purpose of the many ancient mounds and monuments found in almost every country. Antiquaries have never agreed whether the circles are temples or tombs or observatories, whether the dolmens are monuments of the dead or altars for sacrificing living men, and whether the mounds are tombs or law courts. This book compiles a Historical and Statistical account of the Rude Stone Monuments in all parts of the world.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Megaliths, stone circles, and archaeoastronomy.

  • Megaliths, stone circles, and archaeoastronomy

    Controlled discovery queries from gegnir, internet-archive, openlibrary, and project-gutenberg matched “megalithic” and “Megalithic monuments”. Retained metadata contains “Dolmens” in the description, “megalithic” in the subject metadata, and “Megalithic monuments” in the subject metadata.

    • “Megalithic monuments”· via Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue
    • “Megalithic monuments”· via Internet Archive
    • “Megalithic monuments”· via Open Library
    • “megalithic”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Dolmens”· in description
    • “megalithic”· in subject

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1 online resource (429 pages); Dewey classification: 930.14; Publication place: New York

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  • 1536177113
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their age and uses

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1872-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon, England : John MurrayEnglish—Public digitized item

their age and uses.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1872J. Murray; London, J. MurrayEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Contributing institution: Oxford University
  • Contributing institution: University of Connecticut Libraries
  • Contributing institution: unknown library
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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