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XXVIII. Account of opening one of the largest Barrows on Sandford Moor, Westmoreland, in a Letter from Mr. William Preston, dated Warcop Hall, Sept. 5, 1766, to Bishop Lyttelton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

William Preston
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The labourers began by driving a level, and for some time found nothing worth notice. At length one of them, digging on the top of the barrow downwards, turned up, within half a yard from the surface, a piece of an urn, and soon after came to what he thought an urn, fixed, in a large pot or vessel, and containing a small quantity of white ashes.

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Archaeologia , Volume 3 , 1775 , pp. 273
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1775

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