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III. Observations on Researches in Suabian Tumuli; in a Letter from William Michael Wylie, Esq. F.S.A., addressed to J. Y. Akerman, Esq. Secretary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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Our zealous Stuttgart correspondent, Captain von Dürrich, to whom we owe the discovery of the Oberflacht remains, perhaps the most important of their class, has favoured me with a brief communication respecting some ancient and obscure Suabian tumuli. This I have endeavoured to embody in the following notice, which I would venture to hope may interest our Society. Captain von Dürrich's letter is accompanied by illustrative drawings, now exhibited.
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page 27 note a Archæologia vol. XXXVI. p. 129, —Heft 3 des Würtembergischen Alterthumsvereins.
page 28 note a This custom, derived from Sclavonic heathendom, seems still to linger in Russia in the rites of those popular gatherings said to be held at tombs in cemeteries after Easter, at the festival of Radounitza.
page 28 note b Southey gives a similar picture of the ornaments of Oriental dress:
Ear-drop, nor chain, nor arm nor ancle-ring,
Nor trinketry on front, or neck, or breast.
Kehama, c. xiii.
page 28 note c Such jingling metal plates are also found attached to hair-pins of the old bronze period in Scandinavia.—Vide Afbildinger fra det Kongelige Museum. Kjobenhavn, 1854.
page 29 note a Archæologia, vol. XXXV. A tumulus, raised over a similar cubic pile, formed of turf, was opened in Cumberland in the last century. Archæologia, vol. II. p. 57. The rude outline there given shows it bore the same Mamelon form with this Suabian altar tumulus. It is no uncommon thing to find such piles of turf within ancient tumuli in Germany.
page 30 note a Juvenal, viii. 53.
page 30 note b “Ad perticas autem locus ipse adeo dicitur quid ibi olim perticæ, id est trabes, erectæ steterant, quæ ob hanc causam juxta morem Langabardorum poni solebant. Si quis enim in aliquem partem, aut in bello, aut quomodocunque extinctus fuisset, consanguinei ejus intra sepulchra sua perticam figebant, ” &c.—Pauli Diaconi de Gest. Lang. Lib. v. c. 34.
page 30 note c Uber das Verbrennen der Leichen. Berlin, 1850, pp. 38–65. Also Grimm's Preface to Merkel's Lex Salica, p. 48.
page 30 note d “Si quis cheristaduna super hominem mortuum, ” &c. Leg. Salic, tit. 58, ed. Herold.
page 30 note e Erster Bericht des Vereins in den Kreisen, St. Wendel, und Ottweiler.—Abbildungen von Mainzer Alterthümern, No. iv. p. 8.
page 31 note a Grimm's D. Myth, under Götter-Bilder.