us much more of their builders than do the simpler
monuments of other larger and now more important countries. In these two
islands, moreover, research has in the last few years been extremely
active, and it is felt that the accounts here given of them will contain
some material new even to the archaeologist.

In order to assist those readers who may wish to follow out the subject
in greater detail a short bibliography has been added to the book.

For the figures and photographs with which this volume is illustrated I
have to thank many archaeological societies and individual scholars.
Plate III and part of Plate II I owe to the kindness of Dr. Zammit,
Director of the Museum of Valletta, while the other part of Plate II is
from a photograph kindly lent to me by Dr. Ashby. I have to thank the
Society of Antiquaries for Figures 1 and 3, the Reale Accademia dei
Lincei for Figures 17 and 20, and the Societe prehistorique de France,
through Dr. Marcel Baudouin, for Figure 10. I am indebted to the Royal
Irish Academy for Figure 8, to the Committee of the British School of
Rome for Figure 18, and to Dr. Albert Mayr and the Akademie der
Wissenschaften in Munich for the plan of Mnaidra. Professors Montelius,
Siret and Cartailhac I have to thank not only for permission to
reproduce illustrations from their works, but also for their kind
interest in my volume. Figure 19 I owe to my friend Dr. Randall MacIver.
The frontispiece and Plate I are fine photographs by Messrs. The
Graphotone Co., Ltd.

In conclusion, I must not forget to thank Canon F.F. Grensted for much
help with regard to the astronomical problems connected with Stonehenge.

T. ERIC PEET.

LIVERPOOL,
_August 10th,_ 1912.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. INTRODUCTION 1

II. STONEHENGE AND OTHER GREAT STONE
MONUMENTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES 15

III. MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS IN SCOTLAND
AND IRELAND 34

IV. THE SCANDINAVIAN MEGALITHIC AREA 52

V. FRANCE, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 59

VI. ITALY AND ITS ISLANDS 76

VII. AFRICA, MALTA, AND THE SMALLER.
MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS