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)
ets, etc., in a variety of ways. The next engraving(fig. 208) exhibits a leaden coffin discovered in 1864 atBishopstoke,t in Hampshire. The lead which formed the * Now in the Bateman Museum.f See the Reliquary, vol. iv., p. 185. LEADEN AND CLAY COFFINS. I45 coffin was about a quarter of an inch in… … The lid appeared to be formed of one sheet, and had beenbent or lapped over the lower part of the coffin. The leadwas much corroded, and lime had evidently been placedin the coffin. There was none of the ornamentation on theoutside, so common on leaden cists. Nearly the whole ofthe skeleton…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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