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)
gthening bars,on the inner side were of iron. Many handles of iron, belonging to shields, have beenfound in the Kentish and other barrows. The shield, ininterments, was usually placed flat on the centre of thebody, as shown on fig. 325. The umbone or boss pf the shield was, as I have said, UMBONES… … with the sword before described (fig. 372). This extremelyinteresting reli^, which is among the largest ever found,measures nine inches in height. It is, of course, of iron, Fig. 408.
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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