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)
(fig. 15) shows an interment of this kind, whichoccurred in a barrow at Parcelly Hay. The body had been 26 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS, placed in a sitting posture, leaning back against the side ofthe cist, which was only three feet in height, and not morethan that in its greatest width. The… … the loose stones of which the barrow itself was composed.This secondary interment was accompanied by a fine axe-head of stone and a bronze dagger. Of course the seatedskeleton must have been of an earlier date still. * Plate II., Decade 1. KNEELING POSITION OF THE BODY. 27 Another remarkable…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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