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Updated: May 21, 2025
Their present superficial position alone demonstrates the absurdity of assigning the Dumbuck structures to Neolithic times, as if the only change effected in the bed of the Clyde since then would be the deposition of a few inches of mud.
His meaning, and that of the forger who here changes his style, are equally inscrutable. I return to a strange perforated pebble, an intaglio from Dumbuck. Dr. 'In the cavity of a large bone, says the writer, 'was also got an ornament of a peculiar stone.
If time brings no such corroboration, they still remain in their proper classification as things whose special character has not been confirmed by archaeological experience." Sir Arthur Mitchell spoke in the same sense, advising suspension of judgment, and that we should await the results of fresh explorations both at Dumbuck and elsewhere. Dr.
To these sources the Dumbuck forger may have gone for inspiration. Stated without this elegant irony, my opinion is that the parallelism of the figurines and grotesque stone faces of Villa d'Aguiar and of Clyde rather tends to suggest the genuineness of both sets of objects. But this opinion, like my opinion about the Australian and other parallelisms, is no argument against Dr.
How did the two sets of objects come to be all mixed up together, in an old hill fort, at Dunbuie on Clyde; and among the wooden foundations of two mysterious structures, excavated in the mud of the Clyde estuary at Dumbuck and Langbank, near Dumbarton? They were dug up between 1896 and 1902. This is the question which has been debated, mainly in newspaper controversy, for nearly ten years.
Here, then, we have these archaic patterns and marks on isolated stones, one of them about 13 inches long, in a genuine Scottish crannog, of the genuine Iron age, while flint celts also occur, and objects of bronze. Therefore cup markings, and other archaic markings are not unknown or suspicious things in a genuine pile structure in Scotland. Why, then, suspect them at Dumbuck?
Bruce read a paper on Dumbuck, and exhibited the finds. "For my part," said Dr. It has often happened that new varieties of things have been regarded with suspicion on account of their lack of correspondence with things previously known, and that the lapse of time has brought corroboration of their genuineness through fresh discoveries.
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