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The Reliquary and Iilustrated Archæologist maintains its reputation for the beauty of its illustrations. In a late number (vol. ii. No. 2) an elegantly carved wooden Egyptian toilet-spoon of the eighteenth dynasty is reproduced in collotype.—The editor, J. Romilly Allen, has carefully studied the cup-and-ring sculptures of Ilkley in Yorkshire, and gives numerous illustrations of these still mysterious marking. All that we know about them is that they are religious symbols, and that they mostly belong to the Bronze Age, although cups only may possibly have been used at the end of the Neolithic period.—The much-discussed “Dwarfie Stone” of Hoy, Orkney, has been investigated by Mr. A. W. Johnston in a very thorough manner; he comes to the conclusion that it was originally a sepulchre with a stone door.
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Scientific Serials. Nature 54, 237 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054237a0
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