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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 227

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some graves at White Horse Hill, Berks, or elseplaced in a grave as an adjunct to a complete skeleton, ofwhich the head is in the normal position. Plural interments,where two or more bodies are laid in the same receptacle, arenot uncommon, but the systematic disposal of corpses in acemetery in two… … ARRANGEMENT OF THE GRAVES 155 inhumation, as it is called, is inevitable in the case of secondaryinterments in earlier barrows, but it is noticed also when bothlayers are Teutonic of the migration period. The possiblesignificance from the social point of view of all these phe-nomena will be noticed…

Art · Architecture · Architecture, Medieval · Church architecture · Crosses · Decoration and ornament, Celtic · Inscriptions, Runic

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