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)
hes. The floor was composed of thenatural surface of the rock, with some small flat stones laidto make it level, and at the narrow end a raised edge ofstone, rudely hollowed in the centre, formed a pillow onwhich the head rested. The sides of the cist were squareon the one side to the length of… … TT. F.S.A d- rats bones—of which scores of jaw-bones were present,thus showing the large number of these ravaging animalswhich had taken up their abode there—it presented one ofthe most beautiful and interesting examples of primevalarchitecture ever exhumed. It contained the skeleton ofan adult,…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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