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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 109

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of which some of the stones have now disappeared.The circle is about seventy feet in diameter, and the STONE CIRCLES. 79 stones vary from six to eight feet in height. Fig. 78 isthe plan of another twin-barrow, so called, the circle Fig. 78. … in the larger being about thirty-five, and the smallertwenty-four, feet in diameter. In the centre, at a b, arethe remains of a stone cist, or chamber. The moundswere both cairns of loose stones. Remains of otherbarrows, similarly formed, occur in the vicinity. Therewere two within a few hundred…

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