Grave-mounds and Their Contents / A Manual of Archæology, as Exemplified in the Burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon Periods

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Grave-mounds and their Contents: A MANUAL OF ARCHÆOLOGY, AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE BURIALS OF THE CELTIC, THE ROMANO-BRITISH, AND THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIODS. BY LLEWELLYNN JEWITT, F.S.A., ETC., ETC. With nearly Five Hundred Illustrations. LONDON: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 5, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1870.
TO MY OLD AND MUCH-ESTEEMED FRIEND, JOSEPH MAYER, Esq., FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ANTIQUARIES OF COPENHAGEN; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY; MEMBER OF THE SOCIETIES OF ANTIQUARIES OF FRANCE, NORMANDY, THE MORINI, ETC., ETC., ETC.; ONE OF THE MOST ARDENT AND ZEALOUS OF ARCHÆOLOGISTS, AND MOST KINDLY OF MEN; THE PRINCELY DONOR TO THE PUBLIC OF THE FINEST AND MOST EXTENSIVE MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES EVER COLLECTED TOGETHER BY A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL; I, WITH TRUE PLEASURE, Dedicate this Volume. LLEWELLYNN JEWITT.
The object of the following work is, I apprehend, so obvious as to render an introduction scarcely needful. It may be well, however, to remark, that it is the only work of its kind which has ever been issued, and that therefore, taking a stand of its own, and following no other either in plan or treatment of its subject, it is hoped that it will command the attention of antiquaries and of all who are interested in the history and the manners and habits of our early forefathers.
It has long appeared to me that a general résumé of the almost endless store of knowledge presented by the very varied relics of the grave-mounds of the three great divisions of our history—the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon—kept distinct from the histories of those peoples, and from extraneous matters, and treating them more in a general than in an ethnological manner, could not fail to be a useful addition to our archæological literature, and would prove of great value and convenience to the general reader, as well as to the antiquary and the historian. Thus it is that I have been induced to prepare the present volume.