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DISTRIBUTION OF STONE CIRCLES IN ENGLAND 219

Moreover, actual articles of special Phoenician character or association, apart from bronze, have been found at some of these megalithic monuments and in the sepulchral barrows near those sacred sites. At the Stonehenge Circle and some others have been found shells of the Tyrian purple mollusc, oriental cowries and jewellery including blue-glazed and glass

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Sketch Map showing Distribution of Stone Circles and Megaliths in England and Wales. (After W. J. Perry.)

beads such as were a speciality of the Phoenicians. The blue-glazed beads of an amber necklace exhumed from an Early Bronze tomb near Stonehenge and others found in that circle itself and at other prehistoric sites, are of the identical kind which were common in Ancient Egypt within the

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