Grave-mounds and Their Contents A Manual of Archæology, as Exemplified in the Burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon Periods

CHAPTER XI.

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Anglo-Saxon Period--Distribution of Anglo-Saxon Population over England--General characteristics of Grave-mounds--Modes of Burial--Poem of Beowulf--Interments by cremation and by inhumation--Articles deposited with the Dead--Positions of the Body--Double and other Interments--Burial in Urns--Cemeteries and Barrows 202