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PHCENICIAN INSCRIPTIONS AT NEWTON 19

Stone Age implements and in “ prehistoric’ sculptured stones in the neighbourhood, with several Stone Circles'the so-called ‘‘ Druid’ Circles, but which, as we shall see, were solar observatories of the Phoenicians and Early Goths, and essentially non-Druidical and anti-Druidical. So rich indeed is this Don Valley district in ‘‘ prehistoric ”’ sculptured monuments, most of which, I find, bear Phoenician

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Sketch-map of Site of Newton Stone and its Neighbourhood.

and Sumerian symbols of the Sun-cult, that out of 150 of the ancient sculptured stones in the whole of Scotland, mostly “ prehistoric ’’ described and figured by Stuart in his classic survey, no less than 36 are located in the Don Valley, in which the Newton Stone stands. (For one of them see Fig. 5B.)

*S.S.S.i, 1. These local circles had already been removed by villagers within living memory at the time when Stuart wrote (ibid.). On the adjoining circle at Insch, see N. Lockyer in TBB., 85.