Notes on the Barrows and Bone-Caves of Derbyshire With an Account of a Descent into Elâen Hole

Abstract

MR. PENNINGTON has done good service to science by publishing his “Notes.” The objects he describes belong to the palæolithic, the neolithic, and the bronze ages of Britain and Western Europe generally; but, following Prof. Boyd Dawkins, the author includes the entire, period between the close of the palæolithic age and the earlier part of the iron age under the comprehensive name of the prehistoric ages. Moreover, to bring the eras of the archæologist into correlation with those of the biologist, he reminds the reader that during the prehistoric ages, “the animals living in Europe were generally speaking the same as those which live there now,” whilst palæolithic man was accompanied by the mammoth, and many other extinct forms.

Notes on the Barrows and Bone-Caves of Derbyshire. With an Account of a Descent into Elaen Hole.

By Rooke Pennington (London: Macmillan and Co., 1877.)