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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 277

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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, … and is of the same type as one found at Sibertswold, whichis engraved in the Inventorum SepulchraUy The textureof cloth in which it had been enfolded when placed by thebody of the hero by whom it was borne, is distinctly trace- 248 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. able on several parts of its…

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