Hostname: page-component-5c6d5d7d68-pkt8n Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-22T23:06:07.203Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Thursday, March 24th, 1898

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2010

Get access

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Proceedings
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1899

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 119 note * Archaeologia, li. 168, 225, 226, 262.

page 119 note † Pottery has seldom been found in these graves, and when present the vessel is nearly always imcomplete.

page 125 note * No weapons of war have ever, to my knowledge, been found.

page 125 note † The Rev. Canon Greenwell found four goats accompanying a body in one of the Danes' Graves. See Archæological Journal, xxii. 264.

page 125 note ‡ See Oliver's History of Beverley, footnote, p. 4.

page 125 note § In Archæological Journal, xv. 151, is an account of a group of 120 small mounds, mainly in rows, in the midst of which were three ordinary tumuli. They are described as being about 6 feet in diameter and 1 foot high, and varying from 3 to 4 or 5 paces apart. This group is situated at the northern extremity of Holm Heath, Dorsetshire.

page 125 note ‖ Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, iii. 21–23.

page 125 note § Ibid. v. xxi.

page 126 note * The marked prevalence of the long type of skull found, I believe, in all the graveyards of the Early Iron period supports the latter view.