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Collections towards a history of pottery and porcelain, in the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries : with a description of the manufacture, a glossary, and a list of monograms (1850)

Marryat, Joseph · London : J. Murray · leaf 347

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Fig. 111. Tumulus with Skeletons.! (Brongniart.) Fig. 111 represents a family tomb, found in the centre of atumulus at Unterweeden, near Oberfarrenstadt, in Saxony,placed, like all of that district, due east and west; it was care-fully closed, and divided transversely into two chambers, witha… … Pig. 112. Tumulus with Ashes.t (Brongniart.) Fig. 112 represents another kind of tomb, formed of irregularblocks of stone, also under a tumulus, but containing noskeleton. It would appear that the body had been burned, andthe ashes placed in the urns inclosed in the tomb. This wasfound near…

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