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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 431

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hetomb furniture of this region, but across the divide in Bed-fordshire the case is different. At Kempston cinerary urnswere proof of cremation, and this rite is frequent furthernorth in Cambridgeshire, but not to the south. It is true thatcremation is represented freely among the Thames Valley ^ *… … INTERPENETRATION OF AREAS 623 burials but as we shall see presently it decreases in frequencyas the river is ascended and is very slightly represented in thelateral valleys that were colonized from the main one. It isnot likely that West Saxon settlers would have carried the ritewith them so far…

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