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)
down and disappear, while the uprights, being firmly fixedin the ground, would remain, and would thus form thestone circles as now seen, and as commonly called Druid-ical circles. In some instances, as in the case of thecircle enclosing a perfect stone cist, covered by a mound, 76 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND… … fo\ it variety is shown in fig. 72. This is a double circle, orrather two circles, one within the other, and about two feetapart, surrounding a stone cist. The stones in this examplenearly touch each other. A somewhat similar one, butwith the circles farther apart from each other, exists in theIsle…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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