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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt:...in regular order. I will describe those of which I took special notes. At the north end was an unpainted coffin (III. 21) with rude head and arms, PI. xiv. 2, close to the surface and without bricks. It contained no antiquities, but botween it and the next were three food jars (as PI. xiv. 6), one of which probably belonged to it. There were many peculiarities about it; the absence of bricks, the small size and rude work of the coffin, the strange head and curly locks of hair. However, I think it is of the same date as the rest, though probably it was the last interment at the north end. Near the north end was a child's grave, III. 5, without coffin, built of bricks 17 X 1 and 16 X 7f. It had not been rifled (because not worth it) and contained beads of porcelain and variegated glass, with a central pendant representing the eye-ball, also of glass (see PI. xv.). 1 See section of a grave in PI. xiv. Round a grave of the usual kind, numbered III. 1, there was the usual pottery, one specimen of the "false amphora," PL xv. 15, bronze arrow-heads, 22, bronze bowl 166, and another bronze object, 24, like a knife, but with rather blunt edges. Another of the usual type, III. 3, bricks 15 x 7 and 17 x 17f, contained a fine red-ware jug of the smaller size, a shallow basin of similar ware, and a lid like a saucer with a rim inside. Another contained a jar (as PI. xiv. 0 or 7) south of the head; a very broad two-handled jar (as PI. xiv. 4, but with peg-shaped base): also fragments of pottery of three kinds--red, drab and red faced with white. Another grave, III. 10, near the north end furnishes a good instance. The grave was of the usual kind, bricks 15 X 7. The coffin, which had been broken into from the top of the head, was painted as usual with yellow, bl...