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 55
appears that in the year just mentioneda labourer named Fitzgerald, while digging a drainin the ground called Beverley Parks, near that town,came upon what he supposed to be a portion of thetrunk of a tree, which had been turned quite blackfrom the chemical action of the iron and gallic acid inthe… … to the chest by means of four oaken thrindles, or pegs, 42 FORMS OF SEPULCHRAL INTERMENT about the size of the spokes of a common ladder, andthe ends of the coffin had been bevelled off, so as toleave less of the substance of the wood where theholes for the pegs were drilled through. This coffinwas…
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