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)
feet high in the centre, were discovered the remains of ahuman skeleton, consisting merely of the enamel crowns ofthe teeth, which, though themselves but scanty mementoesof female loveliness, were accompanied by several articlesindicating that the deceased was not unaccustomed to add 234… … fibula. Five of the beads are of amber, carefully roundedinto a globular shape, the largest an inch diameter; theremaining twenty-two (two of which are broken) are mostlysmall, and made of porcelain or opaque glass, very prettilyvariegated with blue, yellow, or red, on a white or redground. The…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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