The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity ; illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood (1902)
tacle for the corpse. Iwas informed that these coffins were found near the surface ofthe ground, some of them at a depth of not more than eighteeninches, lying parallel to each other, in a direction nearly east * See my Essays on Archaeological Subjects,,Loudon, 1861, vol. i. p. 3Gto l^. 47. CHAP.… … %>^ Wooden Coffin found at Selby. female. This cofRu was six feet ten inches long; another,which lay near it, measured nearly eight feet. All the otliersimilar coffins were found to contain the remains of humanskeletons. It may be remarked that in this Selby coffin theupper part, or lid, was…
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