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)
THEIR CONTENTS, relics, which were probably the remains of a basket in whichthey were placed at the funeral. All the iron shows impres-sions of woven fabrics, three varieties being distinguishable ;namely, coarse and fine linen, and coarse flannel or woollencloth. The box is very faintly ornamented… … haven. It is two inches in diameter, but very thick. It hassix vertical ribs and two bars for attachment of the lid. Needles and pins are frequently met with. The twoshown on fig. 466 will, however, be sufficient to call atten-tion to these minute objects. Combs of the Anglo-Saxon period differ but…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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