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An introduction to the study of prehistoric art (1915)

Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857 · London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 186

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139 Barrows of the Stone Age.^ Referring to the twenty-eight known Chambered Long Barrows in Britain, Dr.Thurnam remarks on the paucity of manufactured articlesof all kinds being very remarkable, but he was inclined toexplain it, partially at least, as due to their having beenso generally ritled.… … FiG. i6g.—Vessel from Norton Bavant, Long Barrow, Wilts. (Two-thirds size. chambered Long Barrow of Norton Bavant, in Wiltshire(Fig. 169). When removing from this barrow, in 1866, anumber of skeletons, Dr. Thurnam found embedded amongthem the greater part of a thin curious vase of a…

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