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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)

Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London, Groombridge · leaf 40

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t,whether by cremation or otherwise, having been made in anatural or artificial cist, or simply laid upon the naturalsurface of the ground, rough stones were placed in a largecircle around it, and an immense quantity of stones werethen piled up to a height of several feet. Some of these IO… … seen, covered to some depth with earth ; perhaps in some Fig. 5-

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