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)
like so many of the Romano-British period, andthey are, as a rule, perhaps, more firmly fired than theCeltic ones. They are usually of a dark-coloured clay,sometimes nearly black, at other times they are darkbrown, and occasionally of a slate or greenish tint, pro-duced by surface colouring. The… … which have been formed by simply pressing out the pliantclay from the inside with the hand. In other examplesthese raised bosses take the form of ribs gradually swellingout from the bottom, till, at the top they expand into semi-egg-shaped protuberances. The ornamentation on theurns from these…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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