Fig. 349.—Specimen Patterns of Whorls Dug up at Troy. From Ilios (Schliemann).
Fig. 350.—Specimen Patterns of Whorls Dug up at Troy. From Ilios (Schliemann).
Schliemann supposes that the thousands of whorls found in Troy served as offerings to the tutelary deity of the city, i.e., Athene: some of them have the form of a cone, or of two cones base to base, and that Troy was pre-eminently a town of the Eternal Eye is perhaps implied by the name Troie.
Fig. 351 is a ground plan of Trowdale Mote in Scotland which, situated on a high and lonely marshland within near sight of nothing but a few swelling hillocks amongst reeds and mosses and water, has been described as the “strangest, most solitary, most prehistoric looking of all our motes”.[675]
