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List of Plates
Plate
Mulfra Quoit, Penzance, Cornwall. A partially collapsed
megalithic tomb Frontispiece
Facing page
1 Using a flint hoe 32
2 Casting a flat copper axe in an open mould 33
3 Maeshowe, Orkney. Mound covering a megalithic
passage-grave 		48
4 Maeshowe, Orkney. Runes carved by Vikings when
sheltering in the passage-grave 		49
5 Stonehenge trilithons 64
6 Stonehenge. The upright shows a tenon which fitted into
a mortice-hole such as that visible in the fallen lintel-
stone 		65
7 Stennis, Orkney. Part of the stone circle, with surround-
ing bank and ditch 		80
8 A line of Bronze Age round barrows 81
9 Skara Brae, Orkney. A house in the Bronze Age village 96
10 Skara Brae, Orkney. A dresser made from stone slabs 97
11 Celtic fields on Fyfield Down, Wiltshire, from the air 112
12 Reconstruction of the Early Iron Age farmhouse of Little
Woodbury, near Salisbury 		113
13 Celtic art. Sword with iron blade and bronze scabbard-
mount, from the river Witham, near Lincoln 		128
14 Celtic art. Chamfrein, or bronze head armour for a
horse, from Torrs, Kirkcudbright, Scotland 		129
15 Celtic art. Shield of cast bronze with red-enamelled studs
from the river Thames at Battersea 		144
16 Maiden Castle, Dorset. The multiple ramparts 145

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Publication Information: Book Title: Prehistoric Britain. Contributors: Jacquetta Hawkes - author, Christopher Hawkes - author. Publisher: Harvard University Press. Place of Publication: Cambridge, MA. Publication Year: 1953. Page Number: xiii.
    
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