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)
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 epigrams as— Divisa Britannia mittitVeloces, nostrique orbis venatibus aptos.…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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