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)
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. … shape, still retaining its handle of stags horn, rubbed orworn smooth; the good preservation of which we mayattribute to having been imbedded in the fire-hardened earth,and sufficiently deep to secure it from injury by the fire.With the knives in the Plymouth cemetery were found por-tions of…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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