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)
Thecavity was filled to part way up the skull with sand. Another example of interment in a sitting posture wasdiscovered some years ago, at Kells in Ireland. Thesewill be sufficient to show the curious character of thfs modeof interment. DOUBLE INTERMENTS, 29 Several examples of double interments,… … slabs of stone,* were the skeletons of a man and woman,and the remains of two children; the family having pro-bably been immolated at the death of its head, and allburied together. A small urn was found in the same cist; Ten Years Diggings, p. 78. 30 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. and in the same…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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