orward and make a
clean breast of it, like the young men who hoaxed the Society for
Psychical Research with a faked wraith, or phantasm of the living.

"Let it fully now suffice,
The gambol has been shown!"

It seems to me nearly equally improbable that a forger has been at work
on a large scale, and that sets of objects, unexampled in our isle, have
really turned up in some numbers. But then the Caithness painted pebbles
were equally without precedent, yet are undisputed. The proverbial fence
seems, in these circumstances, to be the appropriate perch for Science,
in fact a statue of the Muse of Science might represent her as sitting,
in contemplation, on the fence. The strong, the very strong point
against authenticity is this: _numbers_ of the disputed objects were
found in sites of the early _Iron Age_. Now such objects, save for a few
samples, are only known,--and that in non-British lands,--in _Neolithic_
sites. The theory of survival may be thought not to cover the _number_
of the disputed objects.

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Footnotes

{4} _Archaeology and False Antiquities_, pp. 259-261. By Robert Munro,
M.A., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E., F.S.A.Scot. Methuen & Co., London, 1905.

{5a} Munro, p. xii.

{5b} Munro, pp. 56-80. Cf. _L'Homme Prehistorique_, No. 7, pp. 214-218.
(1905.)

{6} Methuen, London, 1904, pp. 292.

{7} Munro, p. 178.

{8a} Munro, p. 55; cf. his _Lake Dwellings in Europe_, Fig. 13, Nos. 17,
18, 19. See _Arch. and False Antiquities_, pp. 21, 22, where Dr. Munro
acknowledges that he had been taken in.

{8b} Munro, pp. 41, 42.

{8c} Munro, pp. 275-279.

{9} _L'Anthropologie_, 1902, pp. 348-354.

{10} Munro, pp. 175-176.

{11a} Munro, p. 152.

{11b} Munro, pp. 28, 29.

{12} Munro, p. 130.

{13a} Munro, p. 155. Letter of January 7, 1899.

{13b} Munro, p. 260.

{14a} Munro, p. 270.

{14b} Munro, p. 270.

{15} Bruce, _Proceedings of the Scots Society of Antiquaries_, vol.
xxxiv. pp. 439, 448, 449.

{17} _Archaeologia Scotica_, vol. v. p. 146.

{21} See pages 133, 166.

{24} March 1899, "Cup and Ring"; cf. the same article in my _Magic and
Religion_, 1901, pp. 241-256.

{25a} Munro, 133, 134, 150-151.

{25b} Munro, pp. 139, 140.

{26} See _Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow_, xxx.
268, and fig. 4.

{27} _Journal of the British Archaeological Society_, D