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Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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ry at Saffron Walden, Essex. It is thus described inthe Report by Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith.1 f Over the area namedthe graves are distributed most diversely. To the N.E. (theportion shown on the. plate) c there has been an evident inten-tion of interment in line, but the rows, four in number, areneither straight nor of equal length ; their direction is prettynearly N.W. and S.E. Each of the graves here being fairlyand distinctly cut for a single body, one may regard thisportion as the cemetery proper. The view, PI. xiv, makesthis plain.2 Mr. Ecroyd Smith goes on, To the southwardthe skeletons mostly were found in isolated spots, with orwithout a grave. At the extreme southern corner, still greater 1 An Ancient Cemetery at Saffron Walden, by H. Ecroyd Smith, Col-chester, W. Wiles, n.d. 2 For permission to reproduce this view thanks are due to the authoritiesof the Saffron Walden Museum, through Mr. Guv Maynard, Curator. XV facing p. 157 PORTION OF ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY, DOVER HILL, FOLKESTONE
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PILLOW1 UNDER HEAD OF THE FOLKESTONE SKELETON SHAPES AND SIZES OF GRAVES 157 want of order, in fact extreme confusion, was apparent. Onelarge rectangular pit or cist contained the remains of severalbodies which seemed to have been hastily or carelessly de-posited ; smaller ones contained one or more skeletons insimilar condition. PI. xv, 1, shows a portion of the recently excavatedcemetery on Dover Hill, Folkestone.1 Whereas at SaffronWalden, PL xiv, the bodies are laid in distinct excavations inthe chalk subsoil, here at Folkestone the supersoil has beenremoved and the bodies merely laid on the surface of thechalk. In this case a small projection of the chalk has beenleft to serve as a pillow for the skull, and PL xv, 2 shows thisin the case of the skeleton in the Folkestone Museum ofwhich a view was given on PL xn. The regular rock-cut tomb holding the corpse as in asarcophagus, as in the example at Wittislingen in Suabia(p. 541), can hardly be said to occur, but there was one insta

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