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378 the Bœotian festivals, or those worshipped by the Hindus.

Hollows or cups for the reception of the offerings to the spirits of the dead are recorded by Sir James Simpson on several megalithic circles and avenues, as well as on menhirs, and the stones of cromlechs, and chambered tumuli. Some of these probably belong to the Bronze as well as to the Neolithic age.

The designs on articles of the Bronze age in Britain and Ireland are nearly all geometric, and animal forms are not represented. They are either stamped, cast, or engraved on metal, or stamped or moulded on pottery. Those figured below (Fig. 146) represent the principal

146.—Designs of Bronze Age in France and Britain.

patterns of the Bronze age noted in France by M. Chantre: the whole of the first column and of the third,