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)
by thebody of the hero by whom it was borne, is distinctly trace- 248 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. able on several parts of its surface. The umbone, as itlay, was surrounded with the wood, in a complete state ofdecay, which had once formed the shield; and small frag-ments of corroded iron,… … examples here given (figs. 409 to 416), from the illuminatedMSS. of the period. Of Saxon armour the remains yielded to us by thegraves are few and far between. Buckles, such as pro-bably fastened the belt or girdle to which the knife, thesword, etc., were suspended, and others which have doubt-less…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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