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 72
t. Another good example of a stone cist is the next (fig. 42 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. 29), from Liffs-Low. The cist was formed of eight largeslabs of rough limestone, set edgewise ; and formed a cham-ber of very compact and almost octagonal form. It con-tained the skeleton of a man, lying… … and polished, and the other knotched across, somewhat, (touse a homely comparison) like what is usually called a* wafer-seal. Behind the head were a number of miscel-laneous but highly interesting articles, showing, as theydid after the lapse of so many centuries, that the savageBriton, reposing in…
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