Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932, Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956, Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980 · London, J. Murray · leaf 219
d that the wood had beensome 3 in. thick. A group of iron coffin bolts and mountsfrom Bifrons in the Kent Archaeological Societys collection atMaidstone is shown No. 6 on PL xi. A thickness of plankingof at least i\ in. is indicated by the longest of the pieces.PL xviii, 2 (p. 177) gives a partial… … Foreshortened view COFFINS AND CISTS 151 of a Lombard chieftain at Civezzano in North Italy and is inevidence in the Museum at Innsbruck.1 The custom some-times observed abroad 2 of forming receptacles for the bodyby hollowing out the two halves of split tree trunks, a practiceof the Bronze Age3…
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