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)
Iron knives are occasionally found with interments.Some remarkable instances of this have been recentlybrought to light near Plymouth, and others again at Wettonand other places. The knives are of the form engraved onfig. 305. They appear to have had wooden handles, which, Fig. 305- … of course, except small traces of texture, have entirely de- KNIVES, FIBULA, ETC. I93 cayed away. Another knife, although not actually foundwith an interment, shows the form so well that it is hereengraved. It was nine and a half inches long, of peculiar Fig. 306.
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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