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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 239

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nife on hisleft, and his shield laid on the centre of his body. The MODES OF INTERMENT. 209 accompanying engraving (fig. 325) of a grave opened bythe late Mr. Bateman, on Lapwing Hill, will pretty tole-rably illustrate this mode of Anglo-Saxon burial. Beneaththe bones of the skeleton were traces of… … and broad iron sword, enclosed in a sheath made of thinwood covered with ornamental leather. Under or by thehilt of the sword was a short iron knife, and a little wayabove the right shoulder were two small javelin heads, fourand a half inches long, of the same metal, which had lain sonear each…

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