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)
een in the engraving, was found aremarkably fine drinking cup, along with a bone mesh-ing rule or modelling tool, twelve inches long, made fromthe rib of a horse or cow ; a flint dagger; an arrow-head ;and some other implements, also of flint, all of which had POSITIONS OF THE BODY. 13 been burned.… … It lies on its left side, the knees drawn up, and thefeet, elbows, and hands in the position I have alreadydescribed. This barrow possessed considerable interest,fron> the fact that a later interment—of the Anglo-Saxonperiod—had been made immediately above the figure heresubjoined. To this I…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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