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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 44

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ave alreadydescribed. This barrow possessed considerable interest,from the fact that a later interment—of the Anglo-Saxonperiod—had been made immediately above the figure heresubjoined. To this I shall refer under the head of Anglo-Saxon. In the same barrow, shown at A on the engraving,was a… … oval cist, five feet long by two and a half feet wide, smoothlyhollowed out of the chalk, and over this the mound was raised- POSITIONS OF THE BODY. Fig. 9, 15

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