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The stone pillar of Bantry (PL. xLv a) stands on top of a rounded grassy hill one mile west of the old Bantry railway station in County Cork. Below it, just out of sight, is the comfortable Georgian red brick of Bantry House, whose demesne once included the pillar. Below that again are the waters of Bantry Bay, formerly one of the bases of the British Atlantic Fleet, and scene of the abortive landing attempt in 1798 of Wolfe Tone and the French invasion force.
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Page 278 of note * This was written before reading the recently published Østfolds Jordbruksristninger: Skjeberg by Sverre Marstrander (Oslo, 1963), which I subsequently reviewed in this journal antiquity, 1964, 236). It is pleasing that this convincing work makes virtually the same points, pp. 445–8.
Page 281 of note * There is a crack in the stone running almost vertically down the stem. On the strength of this, Allen’s engraving, op. cit., fig. 230 B, makes the stem much smaller with a large helmsman right up against it. The crew figures are so distorted that it is not easy to rule out this interpretation completely, but the craft looks unbalanced and unconvincing.
Page 281 of note * The Navestad Group (Marstrander, op. cit., pl. 64, nos. 15–17), seem the closest but again even these in the majority of cases have the bifid bow and stem which is quite absent in the Pictish craft.
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