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)
ld be among the best remaining examples of small Druidical circles, as they are commonly called. Where the circles have been formed of upright stones,they have not, certainly, always been covered with themound, but have formed a kind of ring fence, a sort ofsacred enclosure, around the barrow. A… … known by the name of the Nine Ladies. This circle,of which a plan is here given, is formed of a circularmound of earth, on which the upright stones are placed. 74 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. It is about thirty-six feet in diameter. It has formerly con-sisted of a larger number of stones; those…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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