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A History of the County of Oxford
… An Anglo-Saxon predilection for appropriating prehistoric barrows as burial-places, more particularly for interments of … It has already been suggested that certain isolated barrows in other parts of the county, where prehistoric … it would seem probable that many of the Oxfordshire barrows may date from this period. Only excavation can …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
Magna Britannia
… seven in number, rising eight feet from the area." 16 Barrows. Tumuli or Barrows, both of earth and stones, (the latter commonly known … bones and ashes. On St. Austell-downs there are many barrows, which "lie sometimes two, three, even seven in a …
Magna Britannia
… is 11 inches thick, and 21 wide. Numerous tumuli, or barrows, occur in various parts of the county, on Haldon and … Exmoor in the very line seen from Berry castle among the barrows, where Roman coins have been found, to Countesbury, … parish; thence over Burrington-moor, where are many barrows, and cross the Roborough road to Beaford-moor-head, …