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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NO. 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...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NO. 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...

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!