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 229
wood Forest, and is here engraved (fig. 322). It is formedof eight cords of gold plaited together, and weighs i lb. i oz. TORQUES AND MIRRORS. 199 7 dwts. and 10 grains. Another example of a differentcharacter, from Ireland, is here given (fig. 323). Fig- 323. … It is safer, perhaps, although there is no doubt thattorques were worn by the Romans, to assign them to theBritish period than to that of their conquerors. Much, how-ever, necessarily depends on the remains found with them,and the locality where discovered. Other personal ornaments, and bone and…
Mounds -- Great Britain · Megalithic monuments -- Great Britain · Great Britain -- Antiquities
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