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)
stone boulders all of which had been subjected to fire.The next illustration (fig. 21) gives a section of the FlaxDale barrow at Middleton by Youlgreave, which shows th 2 Fig. 21. … inverted position of the sepulchral urn. This barrow wasformed on a plan commonly adopted by the ancientBritons, and will therefore serve as an example of modeof construction as well as of the inverted position of the * Ten Years Diggings. 34 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. urn. A circle of large…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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