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 444
The mode of sepulture varied,wrote Mr. Shurlock, some bodies were burnt, the bonescollected and placed in urns for interment. When the reportwas read in 1868 he exhibited an urn in his possession, theundisturbed contents of which consisted in calcined bonesembedded in earth that had become hard… … the earth he had found a minute glass bead and a smallportion of a bronze ornament. The labourer who had dis-covered the urn said he had destroyed many others. Betweenthe reading and the printing of the report two more urns withcalcined bones were found near the site. Fifty years previ-ously an urn…
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