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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 70

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in the centre lay the fine skullshown in figs. 25 and 26.* Two other remarkable skulls,one of a woman of about fifty years of age, and the other ofa girl not more than seven years old, were also found. When the mound at the other extremity of the bank wasopened, calcined bones and animal remains… … in the centre of this mound ; and at its termination anotherand well-built wall was carried crossways at right angles withit (fig. 27), which was laid bare to the length of more than * This skull has been most skilfully figured in Crania Britannica,where it is carefully described and compared with…

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