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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 82

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a half feet in length and about nine feet in width, and iscomputed to weigh above fifteen tons. How such stoneswere raised and placed on the rough upright stone supports Fig. 38. … c:3: which had been prepared for them is almost beyond com-prehension, when it is recollected that they were raised bya people who were devoid of machinery. The heart,Aching with thoughts of human littleness,Asks, without hope of knowing, whose the strengthThat poised thee here. This cromlech when…

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