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Naenia Cornubiae; A Descriptive Essay, Illustrative of the Sepulchres and Funereal Customs of the Early Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall

Naenia Cornubiae; A Descriptive Essay, Illustrative of the Sepulchres and Funereal Customs of the Early Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...class as our circles of erect pillars; and, if the stones at Boscawen-un be really the remains of a Kist-Vaen, it must be remembered that the circle would have been equally perfect without this addition, which, therefore, like the urn at Tuack might have been in no way connected with the original design of the structure. It may be added that when a trench was cut some years since through the centre of Boscawen-un circle, nothing was discovered; a similar cutting made through that in Rolldich, in Oxfordshire, in the last century, was equally unattended with any evidences of sepulchral interment. The exploration of the tumuli which surround the circles has in Cornwall, as elsewhere, been attended with varied, and, to those Antiquaries who would draw a sharp line between the Stone and Bronze periods, most perplexing results. The discovery of a flint knife among calcined bones near Rosemoddress Circle has already been noticed; as also the fact that in tumuli equally near that circle, urns, such as occur with bronze daggers, have been brought to light. Close to the Boscawen-un circle, similar pottery was found, as will be presently seen, and also small globules of bronze among a deposit of calcined bone. Near the Tregaseal circle, on the other hand, Mr. Buller found in a barrow several greenstone celts of the very rudest type. Of these remarkable implements, two, which are preserved in the Museum at Truro, are here figured.1 A third is to be found in the Penzance Museum. With these observations may be dismissed, for the present, the perplexing question of the origin and purpose of circles of stones erect. It must be remembered, however, that in the absence of direct testimony, the antiquary has no more right to call them purely sepulchral monuments, than he woul...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150890109
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 60
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115089010X
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr

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