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 138
usually containing smallcalcined bones, that they were receptacles for the ashes ofthe infant, to be buried along with those of its mother. The form will be seen to vary from the simplest salt-cellar-like cup to the more elaborately rimmed and orna-mented vase. Some are pierced with holes, as if… … sibly be reckoned the singular one here engraved (fig. 126), ofwhich form only two examples have been discovered. Theyare much in shape like the drinking cups before engraved,but have the addition of a handle at the side, which givesthem the character of mugs. One of these is in the Elymuseum, and…
Mounds -- Great Britain · Megalithic monuments -- Great Britain · Great Britain -- Antiquities
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