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 120
and which contains far more information than anyother book extant. The following extract from the work explains thesection:— Above this cist a cairn of fragments of sandstone had been raisedmost likely before interments by cremation were practised on the spot.The dark horizontal line of our woodcut… … and fig. go, from Darwen, Lancashire, has a central band rites, by incineration, had evidently been celebrated on this surface;which was scattered over with a thin layer of wood-charcoal. In thecentre of the barrow, and resting upon this carbonaceous deposit, stooda fine urn of dark British…
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