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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 312

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282 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. Another example, which I give for the purpose of com-parison, is from Envermeu, in Normandy (fig. 462). Of Fig. 462. … the use of these utensils nothing certain, of course, isknown, but it is conjectured they were used for bringing inmead, ale, or wine, to fill the drinking-cups—the objectionto this as a general rule being their very small size. TheAnglo-Saxon translation of the Book of Judges (vii. 20)rendered…

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