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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)

Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London, Groombridge · leaf 194

An illustration from 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, leaf 194 — are, or rhom-boid, the surface of which was cut into parallel lines cross-ing each other, so as to form a dotted figure, and this wasstamped on the surface of the pottery in various combina-tions and arrangements. Sometimes these dots are ar- 164 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. ranged so as to… … secting lines. In its shape this vessel has much the appear-ance ofa sepulchral urn. A considerable quantity of thispottery is without ornament at all. Among this unorna-mented pottery are found, especially, jug-shaped vessels,commonly with a handle. Two of these vessels are repre-sented in the…

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