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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 40

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ft 7, seen, covered to some depth with earth ; perhaps in some … instances this might be a part of the original design, but inmost cases the soil which now covers these stone barrowsmay be traced to the ordinary process of decay of vegeta-tion in successive ages. Barrows were not unfrequently surrounded by a circle ofstones, set upright in the ground. These…

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