RITUAL FIGURES
PROFESSOR SPRATEK’S FIND The figure of a three-legged Hakenkreuz resembling the traditional emblem of the Isle of Man has been discovered carved in a quarry near the Rhineland bathing resort of Durkheim in the Palatinate. The excavating party, working under Professor Sprater, of the historical museum at Speyer, came upon a number of ritual figures on the sandstone walls at Brunholdlsstuhl. Among the figures, apart from the Hakenkreuz. were designs depicting the ravens of Odin, wheels and horses of the sun and a German spear dancer. The designs are regarded as having been carved by German workmen engaged in the quarries under Roman supervision about the year 250 A.D.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20065, 23 March 1935, Page 4
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111RITUAL FIGURES Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20065, 23 March 1935, Page 4
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