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 324
r, and have generally eight, nine, or ten dots each; 294 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. but these are disposed so irregularly that it would be diffi-cult to count them off-hand, which leads to the conclusionthat these counters would not be employed for playing anygame dependent upon numbers, like… … mounds ; and we must assign this interment to the Saxons,whose customs were in many respects identical. All thearticles found in this barrow have undergone the process ofcombustion, along with the human remains. In Yorkshire, some years ago, a stone, marked in smallsquares like a draught-board, was…
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