Talayots, the, of the Balearic Islands, 206. Tealing, Forfarshire, Earth-house at, 298. Thor, conventional representations of, 97, 99, 100, 101. Thor’s Hammer, amulets in form of, 91, 99. Thorgrim, priest of Frey, burial of, 60. Tiree, oval brooches found in, 40. Torrs, Kirkcudbright, bronze object like the frontal of a horse, found at, 112. Torwood, Stirlingshire, Broch at, 188. Towers, Round, of Ireland, 204. Towie, Aberdeenshire, bronze ornaments found at, 122. Trelan Bahow, Cornwall, bronze mirror found in a grave at, 131. Truddhu, the, of the Terra d’Otranto, Italy, 206. Tune, Norway, ship-burial at, 63. Tweezers of bronze, 214.
Ultuna, Sweden, grave-mound of Iron Age at, 51, 52. Unst, Shetland, urns of steatite found in, 74. Urns of steatite from grave-mounds in Orkney and Shetland, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76. Uyea, Shetland, urn of steatite found in, 73.
Valhalla of the Northmen, the, 32. Vases of clay, pierced and containing charcoal and incense, buried in Christian graves, 10, 11, 12. Vik, in Norway, sword found at, 33. Vitrifaction, modern practice of, for macadamising roads, 281. Vitrified Forts of Scotland and France, 275, 280.
Walston, Lanarkshire, ornamented bronze ball found at, 161–162. Weaving, implements of, found in Brochs, 252. —— combs used in, 253, 254. Weston, near Bath, bronze spoons found at, 134, 135. Westray, Orkney, Viking graves in, 55, 58. —— large vessel of steatite found in, 76. Williams, John, description of Vitrified Forts by, 276. Whale, the flesh of the, as an article of food, 215. Woollen fabrics from mosses in Orkney and Denmark, 103–106.
Yarhouse, Thrumster, Caithness, the Broch of, 195, 223.
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