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 85
of the limestone of thedistrict, placed upright on the ground, and are coveredwith immense capstones of the same material. All these CHAMBERED TUMULI. 55 chambers had contained interments. The accompanyingplan (fig. 42) of some of these cists gives the situation ofthe stones forming the sides of… … stone about seven feet square, and of great thickness. Akind of wall similar to those which have been found toencircle some of the Etruscan tumuli, forms the circle ofthis mound, which rises to a height of more than fifteenfeet from the surface of the ground.* The general arrangement of this…
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