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 93
52, and 53), the capstone of which is cleverly and CHAMBERED TUMULI. 63 curiously poised on two only of the upright stones, as willbe seen by the engravings;* Howth, Shandanagh, Bren-nanstown, Glencullen, Kilternan, Mount Brown, Rath-kenny, Mount Venus, and Knock Mary, Phoenix Park, aswell as at… … generations for many ages. One of the most important ofthese is the gigantic chambered burial place, surrounded bya stone circle, at LAncresse, in Guernsey. In this, fivelarge capstones are seen rising above the sandy embank-ment which surrounds the place ; these rest on the propsbeneath, and the…
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