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 79
basket, about six inches in diameter, formed of bark, curi-ously stitched with the sinews of animals; at the bottomwere decomposed remains, perhaps of food. There wasalso a quantity of vegetable substance, mixed with lanceo-late foilage, supposed to be that of the mistletoe. Fig. 36. … Another form—which may be called the boat shape—of tree-coffin is here shown for the purpose of com-parison. CHAPTER IV. Ancient British or Celtic Period—Sepulchral Chambers of stone—Crom-lechs—Chambered Tumuli—New Grange and Dowth—The ChannelIslands—Wieland Smiths Cave, and others—Stone…
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