Donald Alexander Mackenzie - Ancient Man in Britain

Budge, Gods of the Egyptians , Vol. I, p. 358. These scarabs have not been found in the early Dynastic graves. Green malachite charms, however, were used in even the pre-Dynastic period.

The Myths of the New World , p. 294. According to Bancroft the green stones were often placed in the mouths of the dead.

Laufer, Jade , pp. 294 et seq. (Chicago, 1912).

Men of the Old Stone Age , pp. 297-8.

Primitive Man ( Proceedings of the British Academy , Vol. VII).

Les Grottes de Grimaldi (Baousse-Rousse) , Tome I, fasc. II— Géologie et Paléontologie (Monaco, 1906), p. 123.

Prehistoric Britain , pp. 142-3.

London, 1917.

Shells as Evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture , pp. 84-91.

G. A. Reisner. Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-ed-Der , Vol. I, 1908, Plates 6 and 7.

Jackson's Shells , pp. 128, 174, 176, 178.

Dr. Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadeiica , Vol. II, pp.247 et seq. Mr. Wilfrid Jackson, author of Shells as Evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture , tells me that the "blue-eyed limpet" is our common limpet— Patella vulgata —the Lepas, Patelle, Jambe, Œil de boue, Bernicle, or Flie of the French. In Cornwall it is the "Crogan", the "Bornigan", and the "Brennick". It is "flither" of the English, "flia" of the Faroese, and "lapa" of the Portuguese. A Cornish giant was once, according to a folk-tale, set to perform the hopeless task of emptying a pool with a single limpet which had a hole in it. Limpets are found in early British graves and in the "kitchen middens". They are met with in abundance in cromlechs, on the Channel Isles and in Brittany, covering the bones and the skulls of the dead. Mr. Jackson thinks they were used like cowries for vitalizing and protecting the dead.

Breasted, Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt , p. 130.

Hamlet , V. i.

Men of the Old Stone Age , pp.304-5.

A Red Sea cowry shell ( Cyprœa minor ) found on the site of Hurstbourne station (L. & S. W. Railway, main line) in Hampshire, was associated with "Early Iron Age" artifacts. (Paper read by J. R. le B. Tomlin at meeting of Linnæan Society, June 14, 1921.)

For references see my Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe , pp.30-31.

Notes to Thalaba , Book V, Canto 36.

Henry V , V, iii, 6.

For other examples see Mr. Legge's article in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology , 1899. p. 310.