Essays on archaeological subjects, and on various questions connected with the history of art, science, and literature in the Middle Ages (1861)
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877 · London, Smith · leaf 133
veryregular parallelogram, with a floor carefully smoothed,and sometimes of rather large dimensions in propor-tion to the magnitude of the interment. In someinstances I have met with square holes at eachcorner, apparently intended to receive the ends ofbeams of wood, as though some sort of… … Cruciform grave, at Adisham, Kont. describes it in his manuscript account of his explora-tions :— The grave, he says, which was cut veryneatly and exactly out of the rock chalk, was full five 120 ON ANGLO-SAXON ANTIQUITIES: feet deep ; it was of the exact shape of a cross, whoselegs pointed very…
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