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 42
ear to the knees,—fre-quently, indeed, one of them will be found beneath, andthe other on, the knees, which have thus been held betweenthem; and the hands are frequently brought up to thefront of the face. This position, which is after all, per- 12 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. haps, the most… … Bateman. In this case the body had been laid on its leftside in an irregularly formed cavity on the surface of thenatural rock, on a bed of clay, over which, as usual, themound was formed of loose stones and mould. Behindthe skeleton, as will be seen in the engraving, was found aremarkably fine…
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