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 277
hening bars,on the inner side were of iron. Many handles of iron, belonging to shields, have beenfound in the Kentish and other barrows. The shield, ininterments, was usually placed flat on the centre of thebody, as shown on fig. 325. The umbone or boss of the shield was, as I have said, I UMBONES… … with the sword before described (fig. 372). This extremelyinteresting relic, which is among the largest ever found,measures nine inches in height. It is, of course, of iron, Fig. 408,
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