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)
ance.The remains of the teeth show the person to have beenrather youthful, and afford another instance of the extremedecay of the skeleton usual in Saxon deposits in this part ofthe country, whilst those which we have reason to reckoncenturies more ancient are mostly well preserved. Rings BEADS,… … Coins have only occasionally been discovered with Anglo-Saxon interments, and these have, in most instances, beenof the preceding Roman period. Byzantine, Frankish,and Merovingian coins have likewise been found in thegraves. Coins, to which loops are attached, so as to beworn as personal ornaments,…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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