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 87
tedto weigh upwards of seven tons. Several of the stones have entirelydisappeared, of others fragments remain scattered about. CHAMBERED TUMULI. 57 centre of the mound. This gallery, which measures inlength about fifty feet, is at its entrance from the exteriorabout four feet in height, in breadth… … position, for a distance of twenty-one feet from the externalentrance. Thence towards the interior its sides graduallyincrease, and its height where it forms the chamber iseighteen feet. Enormous blocks of stone, apparently water-worn, and supposed to have been brought from the mouthof the Boyne,…
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