The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood.

  • Thomas Wright
Date:
1902
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Credit: The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    chap, in.] CROMLECH AT PLAS NEWYDD. 73 in Brittany, as well as in Ireland. The chambered monument cf New Grange, in Meath, in the latter country, is celebrated Cromlech at Plas Newydd, Isle of Anglesea. among Celtic antiquaries ; it contains a chatnber twenty feet high by thirty feet in circumference, approached by a narrow passage from the side of the mound, the entrance to which was closed by a large slab of stone. The researches of Mr Lukis among the Celtic sepulchres of the Channel Islands, show that these stone chambers had been there used by generation after generation through many ages. As far as antiquarian re- searches have yet been carried, extensive monuments of this kind are of rare occurrence in England. They are found, however, in Wiltshire. When denuded of their covering of earth, they have been more easily thrown down than the simple ciomlech, or perhaps they have afforded greater tempta- tion to those who were in want of stone for other purposes. The monument at Ashbury, in Berkshire, to which the Saxons attached the name of Welandes Smiththcm (Weland’s Smithy- eland was the Saxon Yulcan), a name which has been conupted to that of Wayland Smith’s cave, appears to have een originally a gallery with chambers of this description. A very curious monument of the same kind, near Wellow, in Som- ersetshire, was opened by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, in the May o 1816, and an account of it published in the nineteenth vol*