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)
ch is cal- 54 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. culated to weigh twenty tons; the Molfra cromlech, in thesame county, which consists of a compact cist closed onthree sides and open on the fourth ; the Zenor cromlech;the Plas Newydd cromlech, and many others which it is notnecessary to enumerate, are… … feet in breadth, originally rested on seven stones, two ofwhich have disappeared. The two erections undoubtedlywere originally covered with a single mound. At Minninglow, in Derbyshire, erections of this kindoccur, but, not being denuded of their mounds, are stillpartially buried. The mound is of…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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