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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 175

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were the remains of small glass bottles,probably lachrymatories. The glass was thin, and of avery pale green colour. There was no appearance of handlesto the glass vessels, nor were there any marks of ornamenta-tion on them, except a faint line or ring marked upon oneof the three necks found.… … and at Aldborough. One of peculiar form, from the latterplace, is here given (fig. 209). 10 146 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. Sepulchral chambers, sometimes of considerable size,were occasionally built above ground, and these weresometimes, like the immense chambered burial-places ofearlier…

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