 | Suffolk Institute of Archaeology - Archaeology - 1774 - 564 pages
...would have been buried in the style of this Roman — in a leaden coffin — within a solidly built vault — and with a monumental mound of earth piled...of the Empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The other Tumuli at Rougham afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of those... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1844 - 792 pages
...would hare been buried in the style of this Roman — in a leaden coffin — within a solidly built vault — and with a monumental mound of earth piled...of the Empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The other tumuli at Rougham afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of those... | |
 | English essays - 1844 - 742 pages
...earth piled over it, which needed the united efforts of a numerous company for its erection. I thiuk we shall not be wandering very far from the truth,...of the Empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The other tumuli at Rougham afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of those... | |
 | Architecture - 1845 - 482 pages
...would have been buried in the style of this Roman — in a leaden coffin — within a solidly built vault — and with a monumental mound of earth piled...of the empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The other tumuli at Rougham afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of those... | |
 | Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1884 - 394 pages
...would have been buried in the style of this Roman — in a leaden coffin — within a solidly built vault — and with a monumental mound of earth piled...of the Empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The other Tumuli at Rougham afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of those... | |
 | 1901 - 820 pages
...in supposing this person to have been lord of the neighbouring villa, the foundations of which were detected last year, in a field at a short distance...very last who died in occupation of it, before the lioman legions were finally recalled from enervated Britain in the year 4'2IJ AD I argue thus in favour... | |
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... who, in his brief day, had been eminent in some way or other — for his wealth or his rank, his valour or his position in the social system. No one of little estimation in the eyes of his fellow men would have been buried in the style of this Roman... 