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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 107

An illustration from 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, leaf 107 — 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… … the circle of stones being nineteen feet six inches.^ [Otherexamples, similar in arrangement, might be adduced. Fig. 75- \\> a- u lliT Fig. 75 shows a totally different construction. In thisinstance the circle is composed of a number of stone cists, 78 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS, or…

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