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)
, on figs.143 and 144.* Whetstones, spindle-whorls, and other * For a lengthened description and classification of the various formsof stone implements, the reader is referred to a new work, The AncientStone Implements of Great Britain, by that able antiquary, Mr. JohnEvans, the author of the… … Flints, i.e., various instruments formed of flint, are un-doubtedly the most abundant of any relics of the AncientBritons found in or about grave-mounds. They are ex-tremely varied in form, and many of them are of the mostexquisite workmanship—such, indeed, as would completelybaffle the skill,…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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