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Upper Coquetdale, Northumberland - Its History, Traditions, Folklore And Scenery (1903) (Hardcover)
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Upper Coquetdale, Northumberland - Its History, Traditions, Folklore And Scenery (1903) (Hardcover)
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8?BURIAL AFTER CREMATION. NO. 9?CAIRN ON RAVENSHEUGH. NO.
10?PROBABLE BURIAL BY INHUMATION. Having been informed by Mr. Geo.
Turnbull, the farmer at Great Tosson, that there was a very large
cairn on the northern slopes of Ravensheugh, just below two
standing stones, called by the country people "Kate" and "
Geordie," under his guidance, we proceeded to the spot, and found
an enormous pile of stones on a projecting ridge, having a steep
declivity in front with the hill rising behind. The cairn measured
27 feet from E. to W., and 30 feet from N. to S. The four men after
digging at this cairn for a day-and-a-half, when at a depth of ten
feet from the apex of the mound, came upon a rudely-built cist of
four rough slabs of freestone, and a cover of irregular shape and
colossal proportions, but the superincumbent weight of stones had
completely thrust the side stones of the cist, which were standing
on the natural surface of the ground, out of their original
position. The cist was entirely filled up with sand and bracken
roots, which was carefully removed and examined, but no trace of a
burial was discovered. The base of the cairn consisted of a number
of large rock boulders, placed around in a somewhat systematic
manner, which formed the first layer or foundation. Near the centre
of the cairn a pit-marked stone was met with (Fig. e; the hollows
are very similar to the markings on the rocks at Lordenshaw's camp,
two miles distant. Several authorities state that when a cist is
found empty in the centre of a cairn under circumstances such as we
have related, there has been no burial, and those empty barrows
have been spoken of as cenotaphs, monuments raised to commemorate
but not to contain the dead. Canon Greenwell says " up to the time
he published British Barrows, he cam...
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