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 48
elow the surface. The cist wasformed between two portions of natural rock, and protectedat its entrance by a large flat stone set up edgwise, andother stones filled up the interstices at the sides. It wasalso covered with a large flat stone. On clearing away thesurrounding earth, after removing the… … The accompanying engraving (fig. ii) will show the openedcist, with the stone across its entrance, and the intermentin situ. In front of the skeleton, and close to its hands,was a remarkably good and perfect food vessel, which wasrichly ornamented with the diagonal and herring-bone lines,formed by…
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