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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 281

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arrow ever contained, of which not avestige besides the hair could be distinguished. Near theplace which, from the presence of hair, was judged to havebeen the situation of the head, was a curious assemblageof ornaments, which, from the peculiarly indurated natureof the earth, it was impossible to… … at the mouth, which was decorated by four wheel-shapedornaments and two crosses of thin silver, affixed by pins ofthe same metal, clenched inside (fig. 429). The other Fig- 430.

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