Ten years' diggings in Celtic and Saxon grave hills, in the counties of Derby, Stafford, and York, from 1848 to 1858Allen, 1861 |
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18 inches accompanied amongst animal bones appeared Arbor Low Ballidon beads beneath Bole Hill bronze dagger burnt bones calcined bones celt centre charcoal Chelmorton chipped cinerary urn circumference cist clay colour covered Crania cranium deposit of calcined depth Derbyshire discovered discovery drinking cup edge elevated examined excavation Eyam femur femur measures five feet flat stones fragments frontal bone grave Hartington head Hill incense cup inches high inches long instruments of flint interment iron July June large barrow large stones left side limestone lower jaw ment middle Monsal Dale Monyash Moor mound natural level natural soil natural surface occiput opened a barrow ornamented parietal tubers Parwich placed pottery prominent parietal rats remains removed rock Romano-British round sand Saxon sepulchral shape skeleton skull spear Staffordshire Stanshope superciliary ridges teeth THOMAS BATEMAN three feet Throwley trench tumulus unburnt vase vessel Warslow Wetton worn yards diameter young person
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الصفحة i - NOW since these dead bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground and thin walls of clay out-worn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests ; what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim...
الصفحة 249 - But he hath heard some talk of him and Little John ; And to the end of time, the tales shall ne'er be done, Of Scarlock, George a Green, and Much the miller's son, Of Tuck the merry friar, which many a sermon made In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade.
الصفحة i - Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.
الصفحة 309 - VESTIGES OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF DERBYSHIRE, and the Sepulchral Usages of its Inhabitants, from the most Remote Ages to the Reformation. By Thomas Bateman, Esq., of Yolgrave, Derbyshire. In one handsome volume, 8vo, with numerous woodcuts of Tumuli and their contents, Crosses, Tombs, $-c.
الصفحة 124 - ... giants, under hilly and heavy coverings, but content with less than their own depth, have wished their bones might lie soft, and the earth be light upon them.* Even such as hope to rise again would not be content with central interment, or so desperately to place their...
الصفحة 190 - Shakspeare had in view some ancient usage, retained possibly in some parts of England, in accordance with which those, who like Pagans had laid violent hands upon themselves, were buried with ceremonies peculiar to the heathens. Amongst such sepulchral usages, that of scattering flints and pot-sherds over the corpse, as shown by the examination of tumuli in Switzerland and Southern Germany, appears to have been observed. Mr. Keller remarked, that if English Archaeologists succeed in determining to...
الصفحة 189 - Kleeman observes that it w#s customary to bring the corpse to the place of interment clad in festive garments, and show it to the friends; a banquet then commenced, and a share was offered to the deceased. The revelry must have been of a very lively character ( ?) from the quantity of broken pottery found in these tombs.
الصفحة 34 - ... enveloped in a skin, of dark red colour, the hairy surface of which had left many traces both upon the surrounding earth and upon the verdigris or patina coating a bronze axe-shaped celt and dagger, deposited with the skeleton.
الصفحة 189 - This fact has been little noticed by antiquaries, who do not appear to have recognised the observance of a heathen custom; and have not ascertained whether it may be regarded as characteristic of the customs of Celtic or Germanic tribes.
الصفحة 146 - ... indicates, in this part of the country at least, a period when the use of metal was unknown, the sole material for the spear and arrow being flint, which is often carefully chipped into leaf-shaped weapons of great beauty. The interments within these cists have in every case been numerous, and apparently long continued. They are marked by a strongly defined type of skull, styled by Dr. Wilson kumbe-kephalic, or boat-shaped, the more obvious features being excessive elongation, flattening of the...