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 215
deposits.They are of great variety, and evidently made for manydifferent uses. Those found in the graves are usually thosemade for holding the burnt bones of the dead; smallvessels, commonly called lachrymatories, although their usewas most probably that of holding the unguents and aroma-tics… … They are of somewhat thick green glass, with neck and han-dle, and are literally bottles. The one from Bartlow Hills isof square form, and is six inches in height and four inchessquare on the bottom. Others are round in form. Theycontained the calcined bones of the dead. Of the forms ofthe small…
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