Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London : Groombridge · leaf 102
upon thesurface of the earth, around the interment (which in thiscase consisted of calcined bones, in urns and without), andupon these a second course of stones was placed. Themound was then raised in the manner indicated in fig. 4,and over this a thick layer of earth was laid, which in-creased… … the effect, by burning the soil, of hardening it, and makingit in some cases almost of the consistency of brick. An example of the second mode of construction I haveindicated is at Elk-Low, a section of which is given on fig.67. The barrow has a depression running around its uppersurface, something…
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