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 75
hole was acovering of the ordinary compacted soil of which the bar-row was composed. The body inhumed in this tree-coffin,and not burned, had gone totally to decay, leaving only awhitish unctuous matter behind. This substance was nodoubt adipocire, the production of which is to be accountedfor by… … There were no flint chippings discovered in the soil ofwhich the barrow was composed, or other object, andnothing else was contained in the tree-coffin, save the bodyin its wrappings. Some pieces of a bright black substance * This woollen cloth must be regarded as a woven texture, butwhether it…
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