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)
Figs. 397 to 403, … Fig. 404. SHIELDS, ETC. 245 boss or urobone was of various forms and sizes, as will beshortly shown. The wood of which the shield was com-posed appears from Beowulf to have been that of the lindentree:— He seized his shield,the yellow linden-wood. The shield was often called a war-board; and we…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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