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Excerpt from Scotland in Pagan Times, Vol. 2: The Bronze and Stone Ages; The Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1882
Having dealt with the remains of the Iron Age culture and civilisation of Scotland in the last course of Lectures, I now proceed to deal similarly with those of the Age of Bronze. When they have been exhausted, the residue will represent the remains that' are assignable to the Age of Stone; and to these the last three Lectures of the present course will be devoted.
In dealing with the remains of the Age of Bronze, we shall examine and consider, not only the nature and characteristics of the objects of bronze themselves, but also the nature and characteristics of the objects in other materials which have been found in association with them. It has been already shown that the circumstances which have controlled the actual associations, and the phenomena which determine the scientific associations of objects of various uses, purposes, and materials, are primarily those of the burial deposits of a period. Hence I shall select for description and examination of their typical characteristics - first, a series of burials which may be determined to belong to the Bronze Age by their essential circumstances or underground phenomena.
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