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Roman Barrows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

G. C. Dunning  and
R. F. Jessup
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Roman barrows have long been known on the Continent and in R this country, but until recent years they have hardly received the attention they deserve. In the forties and fifties of last century a number of Roman barrows suffered from the jaunty zeal of tophatted antiquaries and their attendant ladies who, as at the opening of the Holborough barrow in 1844, contrived to pass the time ‘at intervals between digging and pic-nicing, in games of various descriptions … and in other amusements’, but who were sometimes glad of the shelter ‘afforded by the hole we had ourselves dug … in which we managed so to interlace parasols and umbrellas … as to form a tolerably impenetrable roof over our heads’.

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Antiquity , Volume 10 , Issue 37 , March 1936 , pp. 37 - 53
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1936

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1 The exact site of barrow and cemetery still remains to be determined ; will not someone locate it ? The published accounts are vague, and the name ‘Linton Heath ’ no longer appears on the Ordnance Maps. O.G.S.C.

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