clusion in my paper, 'Portuguese Parallels to Clydeside
Discoveries,' reported in your issue for March, which will shortly be
published.

"I have seen the article in _Portugalia_ and the published 'scientific
conclusion' of Mr. Astley (_Journal of B.A.A._, April and August,
1904), and can only say that, even had I space to discuss the matter I
would not do so for two reasons. First, because I see no parallelism
whatever between the contrasted objects from the Portuguese dolmens
and the Clyde ancient sites, beyond the fact that they are both 'queer
things.' And, secondly, because some of the most eminent European
scholars regard the objects described and illustrated in _Portugalia_
as forgeries. The learned Director of the Musee de St. Germain, M.
Saloman Reinach, thus writes about them: 'Jusqu'a nouvel ordre, c'est-
a-dire jusqu'a preuve formelle du contraire je considere ces pierres
sculptees et gravees comme le produit d'une mystification. J'aimerais
connaitre, a ce sujet, l'opinion des autres savants du Portugal'
(_Revue Archeologique_, 4th S., vol. ii., 1903, p. 431)."

I had brought the Portuguese things to the notice of English readers long
before Mr. Astley did so, but that is not to the purpose.

The point is that Dr. Munro denies the parallelism between the Clyde and
Portuguese objects. Yet I must hold that stone figurines of women,
grotesque heads in stone, cupped stones, stones with cup and duct, stones
with rays proceeding from a central point, and perforated stones with
linear ornamentation, are rather "parallel," in Portugal and in
Clydesdale.

So far the Scottish and the Portuguese fakers have hit on parallel lines
of fraud. Meanwhile I know of no archaeologists except Portuguese
archaeologists, who have seen the objects from the dolmen, and of no
Portuguese archaeologist who disputes their authenticity. So there the
matter rests. {130} The parallelism appears to me to be noticeable. I
do not say that the styles of art are akin, but that the artists, by a
common impulse, have produced cupped stones, perforated and inscribed
stones, figurines in stone, and grotesque heads in stone.

Is not this common impulse rather curious? And is suspicion of forgery
to fall, in Portugal, on respectable priests, or on the very uncultured
wags of Traz os Montes? Mortillet, educated by priests, hated and
suspected all of them. M. Cartailhac suspected "clerical