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)
. On the cist being cleared, was dis-covered a regular paved floor of limestone, entirely coveredover with human bones, presenting a confused mass of therelics of humanity. The skeletons lying in the primitiveposition, crossed each other in all directions. They provedto be the remains of thirteen… … Jc*rrr On the floor were found three arrow-heads of flint,wrought into beautiful thin leaf-shaped instruments, andmany other calcined flakes of the same material; also INTERMENTS IN LONG-LOW, 39 bones of the ox, hog, deer, and dog. Not far from the cist,and near the surface, was found a skeleton…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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