Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[426] v, 18, § 2.

[427] Guide to the Ant. of the Stone Age (Brit. Museum), p. 73.

[428] Archaeologia, xlii, 1869, pp. 184-5; W. Greenwell, Brit. Barrows, pp. 500-1.

[429] Journ. Anthr. Inst., v, 1876, pp. 134-8. Even in cremation deposits the bones are often imperfect and disconnected; and, previous to cremation, the bodies must have been stored in an ossuary (W. Greenwell, Brit. Barrows, p. 547).

[430] Ib., pp. 527, 533-4, 547-8

[431] Archaeologia, xlii, 1869, pp. 185, 191-2, 222, 227; Mem. Anthr. Soc., iii, 1870, p. 76.

[432] W. Greenwell, Brit. Barrows, pp. 686-93. See also Canon Greenwell’s remarks on pp. 544-5. Although he agrees in the main with Rolleston, he admits the probability that Thurnam ‘found signs of violent breakage upon a few skulls’.

[433] Archaeologia, xxxviii, 1860, p. 421.

[434] Gen. Pothier, Les tumulus du plateau de Ger, 1900, pp. 30-1.

[435] See the references in Greenwell’s Brit. Barrows, p. 685.