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 259
glass, a bone comb, some small instruments of iron, a pieceof perforated bone, and a necklace with pendant ornaments,with other articles, were found enclosed in a box, or casket,made of ash wood, half an inch in thickness, with twohinges and a small lock, which had, when placed in thegrave, been… … Fig. 358.A cup of similar form is shown on fig. 358, and other ex-amples of glasses are shown on the same group. 230 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. These examples, it will be seen, must have been held inthe open palms of the hand, as is seen so frequently repre-sented in illuminations, and must…
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