Abstract
DR. HENCKEN'S volume on Cornwall and Scilly, while following the plan of the series, is somewhat broader in its method of treatment. For this, the material is in part responsible. It was inevitable that such topics as the Cornish megalithic monuments and the burial chambers of Scilly, the position of Cornwall in prehistoric trade, its tin mining industry, and the relation of its legendary history to its archology after the Roman evacuation should call for discussion on broad comparative lines. As a result, the book, while no less valuable to the archologist than its predecessors, is even more attractive to the general reader.
The Archæology of Cornwall and Scilly.
Dr.
H. O‘Neill
Hencken
By. (The County Archæologies.) Pp. xvii + 340 + 12 plates. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1932.) 10s. 6d. net.
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The Archæology of Cornwall and Scilly. Nature 130, 152 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130152d0
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