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 50
level, to be hereafterdescribed. On the following Monday we resumed our operations bymaking an opening on the north-west side, as shown at d onthe plan. Here, again, at a few feet from the outer edge, wecame upon an interment h, without a cist, accompanied byan unusual quantity of rats bones.… … covering stone was a deposit of burnt bones and ashes, withinnumerable quantities of rats bones. The cist, which was covered with one extremely largeflat stone, we found to be formed partly of the natural rock,and partly—like the others—of flat stones set up edgewise ;and it was, without exception,…
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