Note 625 — Chapter VI · THE ORIENTATION OF GRAVES

T. Rice Holmes, Anc. Brit. and the Invas. of Julius Caesar, 1907, p. 188. Dr Holmes has thoroughly sifted the evidence, and his generalizations deserve to be carefully read. See also C. H. Read, Guide to the Bronze Age, Brit. Mus. 1904, p. 55. On p. 46, Dr Read describes urn-burials, without existing mounds, near Ashford, Middlesex. The urns were arranged in straight lines, East to West, or in crescents facing East. For Saxon graves, see Excav. in Cranborne Chase, II. pp. 260-1. In the Jutish cemetery at Droxford, Hants, the skeletons lay towards all points of the compass. (J. Vaughan, Lighter Studies of a Country Rector, 1909, p. 138.)