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)
r inches. Many other varieties arefound, sometimes formed of square bars of gold twistedspirally, sometimes of flat bars of the same metal twistedin a lighter manner, and sometimes, again, of more than onebar twisted together. The ends, too, are of various forms :sometimes being simply hooks, and… … wood Forest, and is here engraved (fig. 322). It is formedof eight cords of gold plaited together, and weighs 1 lb. 1 oz. TORQUES AND MIRRORS. I99 7 dwts. and 10 grains. Another example of a differentcharacter, from Ireland, is here given (fig. 323). Fig. 323.
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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