 ... entirely from the workmen. This burial place consisted of a tumulus of boulders, like the one at Haulgh Hall; but these and the earth had, when I visited the spot, been nearly all removed. In the centre of the heap of boulders was a cist-vaen, containing...  Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 1591853Full view - About this book
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 514 pages
...elegant appearance affords a contrast to the uninviting form of many of the caterpillar tribe. It is about two inches and a half long, and one inch and a half in circumference. Its body is smooth, and of a light green colour, with diagonal streaks of dark lilac... | |
 | William Baird - Crustacea - 1850 - 466 pages
...KIEFENFUSS, Sulzer, Die Kennzeich. der Insect-, 197, t. 24, f. 153. Description. — This species is about two inches and a half long, and one inch and a half diameter ; of a brownishyellow colour, clouded with marks of a deeper hue. The edges of the notch in... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1851 - 528 pages
...the heap of boulders was a cist-vaen, containing a skeleton, lying North by East and South by West, and a grey urn, ill baked, and broken to small fragments...With this urn was a white flint celt, or knife, about 2£ inches long, and 1-J inches broad. This flint was afterwards lent by mo to a temporary museum at... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1852 - 298 pages
...the heap of boulders was a cist-vaen, containing a skeleton, lying North by East and South by West, and a grey urn, ill baked, and broken to small fragments...With this urn was a white flint celt, or knife, about 2J inches long, and 1^ inches broad. This flint was afterwards lent by me to a temporary museum at... | |
 | Bryan Faussett - Anglo-Saxons - 1856 - 356 pages
...smallest, three inches long and half an inch broad. " There were also found a piece of iron, round at top, two inches and a half long and one inch and a half broad, in form like a modern spatula, with two holes in it ; and part of a small iron handle, two inches long.*... | |
 | George Gordon, Robert Glendinning - Conifers - 1858 - 384 pages
...solitary, growing from among the scaly buds. Cones, elliptic, cylindrical, obtuse at the ends, solitary, two inches and a half long, and one inch and a half in diameter, and somewhat resembling those of the Pinus cembra. Scales, regularly imbricated, wedge-shaped,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1862 - 348 pages
...since retained. It consists of a representation of St. George and the dragon, within a vesica piscis, two inches and a half long and one inch and a half broad. The figure is beneath a trefoiled canopy, which is supported on two slender columns ; the wings and... | |
 | Andrew Murray - Botany - 1863 - 132 pages
...shoot." Cones (fig. 30), ovate or slightly coniFig. 35. Fig. 36a. Fig. 366. cal, broadest near the base, two inches and a half long, and one inch and a half in diameter, and terminating obtusely. Scales (fig. 35) -with the apophysis from half to three-quarters... | |
 | George Gordon - Conifers - 1880 - 664 pages
...solitary, and growing from among the scaly buds, Cones elliptic, cylindrical* obtuse at the ends, solitary, two inches and a half long, and one inch and a half in diameter, and somewhat resembling those of the Pinus cembra. Scales regularly imbricated, wedge-shaped,... | |
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