Half-hours Among Some English AntiquitiesHardwicke and Bogue, 1877 - 240 páginas |
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... contain stone chambers and pas- sages , formed of massive upright slabs , and covered LOWD Fig . 6 . Fig . 7 . with immense blocks of stone , and over these passages and chambers the mound has been raised . Among the more notable of ...
... contain stone chambers and pas- sages , formed of massive upright slabs , and covered LOWD Fig . 6 . Fig . 7 . with immense blocks of stone , and over these passages and chambers the mound has been raised . Among the more notable of ...
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... contained sepulchral chambers of large size . These were occasionally built above the ground , and then covered with the mound . At other times a simple mound over a grave , or over a sepulchral urn or other deposit , was raised ...
... contained sepulchral chambers of large size . These were occasionally built above the ground , and then covered with the mound . At other times a simple mound over a grave , or over a sepulchral urn or other deposit , was raised ...
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... contained interments by cremation in the manner usual during the Bronze age . Only two contained any iron weapons , and these were both secondary interments ; that is to say , the owners of the iron weapons were not the original ...
... contained interments by cremation in the manner usual during the Bronze age . Only two contained any iron weapons , and these were both secondary interments ; that is to say , the owners of the iron weapons were not the original ...
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... contained “ the skeleton of a man in the prime of life and of fine proportions , apparently the sole occupant of the mound , who had been interred whilst en- veloped in a skin of dark red colour , the hairy surface of which had left ...
... contained “ the skeleton of a man in the prime of life and of fine proportions , apparently the sole occupant of the mound , who had been interred whilst en- veloped in a skin of dark red colour , the hairy surface of which had left ...
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... general form was an elongated square block of stone - like a portion of a square pillar - with an inscription on its front side . The front , as I havé said , contained the inscription , and the back was ENGLISH ANTIQUITIES . 69.
... general form was an elongated square block of stone - like a portion of a square pillar - with an inscription on its front side . The front , as I havé said , contained the inscription , and the back was ENGLISH ANTIQUITIES . 69.
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