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)
-place with greatcare, but in all rude simplicity. It is rich in instruction, and marked byprecise phases of information. It shows almost certainly the contem-poraneous adoption of inhumation and cremation—the latter, perhaps,yielding to the first a short precedency ; or possibly, in this instance,… … (fig- 93) is of a different type, as are also figs. 94, fromStone, Staffordshire, and 95 and 96, from Cleatham, in Lin-colnshire. Other forms, again, are shown on fig. 97, fromthe Calais Wold-barrow, Yorkshire, discovered by Mr. Mor-timer. It is eleven inches in height, and is ornamented witha…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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