Grave-mounds and Their Contents: A Manual of Archæology, as Exemplified in the Burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon Periods

· 1886

Grave-mounds in general--Their Historical Importance--General Situation--Known as Barrows, Houes, Tumps, and Lows--List of Names--Division into Periods 1 Ancient British or Celtic Period--General characteristics of the Barrows--Modes of construction--Interments by inhumation and by cremation--Positions of the Body--Hitter Hill Barrow--Elliptical Barrow at Swinscoe--Burial in contracted position--In sitting and kneeling positions--Double Interments 6…

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