The English Village Community / Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

by Frederic Seebohm

[640.] Now part of the garden of Mr. W. T. Lucas, in whose possession many of them now remain. Three skeletons, one of them of great size, were found near the urns.

[641.] For permission to reproduce this map I am indebted to the present lord of the manor, C. W. Wilshere, Esq., of the Fryth, Welwyn.

[642.] Mr. William Ransom, of Fairfield, near Hitchin.

[643.] As regards Roman cemeteries, as placed in the extreme corner of a holding, see Lachmann, pp. 271–2; De Sepulchris Dolabell. p. 303.

[644.] Archæologia, vol. xxvi. p. 376.

[645.] Journal of British Archæological Association, iv. 356, and v. 54.

[646.] Archæologia, xxxii. p. 350.

[647.] Id., p. 352.

[648.] See Mr. Gomme's interesting work on Primitive Folkmotes, c. ii.

[649.] A remarkably fine glass funeral urn was found about half a mile below the Meppershall Hills in 1882 by the tenant of the neighbouring farm.