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)
260 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. elsewhere found, with hooks for suspension, or attachmentto leather or other substance. One of these is engraved,of its real size, on the next illustration (fig. 435). Thecentre is of enamel mosaic work, ground down level withthe metal, as in the old Chinese… … The inference to be drawn from this curious discovery is,that the grave was that of a Saxon of high rank, who hadbeen buried in his full dress, and that the cavity had beenspecially cut out in the floor of the rock grave to admit ofthe helmet being worn as when he was living. No remainsof a shield…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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