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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)

Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London, Groombridge · leaf 69

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led old mortar, to an extent that could not have beeneffected by an ordinary fire. It is not unusual to find smallstones burnt to lime on the floors of barrows ; in the presentinstance it had acquired a hardness almost equal to thestones, effected during a very long period by imbibing car-bonic… … L.JEWlTX **t

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