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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 174

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xcellent typical example of a Romanin the very prime of life, is engraved in Crania Britannica, pi. 30. f See example in the York museum. X Collectanea Antiqua, vol. iii., p. 45. § Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society; WellbelovedsEburacum; Crania Britannica, etc. 144 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND… … the body of a woman who had been clothed in rich purple,with a small child laid upon her lap, was distinctly visiblein the lime. Coffins of lead are of not unfrequent occurrence in thecemeteries of London, Colchester, York, Kingsholme, Fig. 207.

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