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)
ich we could hardly in any other way have ob-tained, of life in Britain under the Romans, and theyshow us, as well as could be shown in subjects capable ofbeing represented by such artists, those occupations inwhich the enjoyment of life was then believed to consist.The more common of these… … in Artiss plates, must be recognized at once as a grey-hound, the same variety of dog which is still used for thesame purpose. It has been suggested that this may be thedog to which the Romans gave the name of vertagus, andwhich is said to have been a British dog. Martial describesit in one of his…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
