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 57
es of trees had here, as at Gristhorpe, beenplaced over the coffin before the mound was filled in.The coffin in this instance was, like the others, hol-lowed from the solid trunk of a tree, but it differed from FOUND IN EAST YORKSHIRE. 43 them in having no ends; and, although it came in twopieces… … by hollowing through the heart of the timber. Thiscoffin was about six feet in length and four in breadth,the disproportion in breadth being accounted for bythe circumstance that it was intended to contain threebodies, two of which were laid with their heads turnedone way, and the other turned in…
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