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)
r July, 1862, page 290. f The elliptical form was evidently, in this case, the result of accident. INTERMENTS, SWINSCOE BARROW. 23 interments were as follows:—1. A young adult, lying in acontracted position, on its right side, in a shallow grave cutabout six inches deep in the chert rock, with a… … by a large stone at its side. 4. The bones of a young hog,enclosed in a stone cist. 5. Remains of a cinerary urn andburnt bones. 6. Skeleton of an aged man, lying in a con-tracted position, on its left side, upon a thin layer of charredwood. 7. A deposit of burnt bones. 8. Skeleton, very…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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