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)
he middle. They have a raised border of curiousdesign around their outer edge, and they have been, * See the Reliquary Quarterly Archaeological Journal and Review,vol. ix. p. 180. 246 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. like the boss, attached to the shield by pins or rivets.The boss is of very… … shield formed of wood and covered with leather; that itwas faced with plates of bronze, and had a bronze umbone;and that the handle, and probably the strengthening bars,on the inner side were of iron. Many handles of iron, belonging to shields, have beenfound in the Kentish and other barrows. The…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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