[499] Flinders Petrie, The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, pp. 169, 222.
[500] C. Piazzi Smyth, op. cit.
[501] In 1770, when New Grange apparently was not covered with a growth of trees as now, Governor Pownall visited it and described it as like a pyramid in general outline: ‘The pyramid in its present state’ is ‘but a ruin of what it was’ (Coffey, op. cit., xxx. 13).
[502] Le Dr. G. de C., Locmariaquer et Gavr’inis (Vannes, 1876), p. 18.
[503] According to Le Dr. G. de C., op. cit., p. 18.
[504] Mr. Coffey says of similar details in Irish tumuli:—‘In the construction of such chambers it is usual to find a sort of sill or low stone placed across the entrance into the main chamber, and at the openings into the smaller chambers or recesses; such stones also occur laid at intervals across the bottom of the passages. This forms a marked feature in the construction at Dowth, and in the cairns on the Loughcrew Hills, but is wholly absent at New Grange’ (op. cit., xxx. 15). New Grange, however, has suffered more or less from vandalism, and originally may have contained similar stone sills.
[505] Flinders Petrie, The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, p. 216.
[506] Maspero, op. cit., p. 69 n., &c. The world-wide anthropomorphic tendency to construct tombs for the gods and for the dead after the plan of earthly dwellings is as evident in the excavations at Mycenae as in ancient Egypt and in Celtic lands.
[507] Cf. Bruns, Canones apostolorum et conciliorum saeculorum, ii. 133.
[508] Cf. F. Maassen, Concilia aevi merovingici, p. 133.