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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 45

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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 … l5 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. Along with it were found a bronze dagger, a barbedarrow-head of flint, a beautiful drinking cup and otherobjects. This example is from Roundway Hill, in NorthWiltshire.* Another excellent example, from Hitter Hill,Derbyshire, is given in the next engraving (fig.…

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