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)
ons, have occasionally been found ; but much earlierthan these are some cakes (if the term can be allowed) oflead which have evidently been cast in the saucer-shapedhollows of stones. Of these, which are purely British,some examples have fortunately been preserved. But to resume. The positions I… … row in which, at a, is shown a sepulchral urn in an uprightposition, capped with a flat stone • and at 6 a heap of burntbones piled up in the usual fashion, and first covered withearth and then with the loose stones of which the wholebarrow was composed. The next engraving (fig 20) again shows,…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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