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
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. … Southfleet, Ozengal, and elsewhere. They are, as will beseen by the example from Colchester (fig. 207),* usuallyornamented with raised escallop shells, beaded mouldings,annulets, etc., in a variety of ways. The next engraving(fig. 208) exhibits a leaden coffin discovered in 1864 atBishopstoke,t in…
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