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The arts in early England (1903)

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 209

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also 1 T>e Mor. Germ., xvi. I42 THE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY frequently possessed the characteristic of being on compara-tively elevated ground. This is the case with Bronze Agebarrows on the Sussex Downs by Lewes, with the Wiltshiremounds, the Bronze Age barrows on the Yorkshire Wolds,and the Early… … Fig. 5.—Site of High Down Cemetery, Sussex, from the South. Barriere-Flavy2 and others, to the Teutons in general. So faras English cemeteries are concerned this principle does applyin certain regions, and there are conspicuous instances in whicha site of commanding elevation has been selected for…

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