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)
engnawed by the scalpri-form incisors of these animals. I have endeavouredto explain, in the note referred to, that all the rodents amuse themselves,or possibly preserve their teeth in a naturally useful state, and them-selves in health, by gnawing any object that comes in their way.This is well… … natural rock, and partly of stones set up edgewise. Thedimensions of this cist were about forty inches by twenty-years ago, seeing a very fine black squirrel in the house ofa workman in thistown, which had been sent him by his son from Canada. It was foundthat it was impossible to keep this animal…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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