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)
11 r f MIRRORS AND CHATELAINES. 289 Mirrors such as are found in Roman graves are occa-sionally, but very rarely, met with; they were, of course,articles for the toilet. Shears or scissors of iron, some ofwhich are of precisely the same form as our modern sheep-shears, and others of the shape of… … They are of bronze, and were, it is said, used for pullingout superfluous hairs from the body. They with the scis-sors were frequently worn attached to the girdle, along withother instruments, of which I shall now say a few words. Chatelaines, or girdle-hangers, are among the most inte-resting of…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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