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)
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… … The mound in this instance, probably, rose from the innercircle only, and covered the central cist. In several in-stances the interment was not in the centre of the circle,but was made in different situations within its area. Forinstance, in the next example (fig. 74), from Trewavas STONE CIRCLES…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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