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 82
knowing what it might be, or what it mightlead to, they went on removing the surrounding earth,and gradually cleared, on all its sides, the majestic crom-lech which is now one of the prides of Cornwall.This highly interesting chamber contained a heap ofbroken urns and human bones. This ** Lanyon… … a half feet in length and about nine feet in width, and iscomputed to weigh above fifteen tons. How such stoneswere raised and placed on the rough upright stone supports Fig. 38.
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