 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1820 - 474 pages
...was a ferule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time. Though the handle showed the hole where the blade had been inserted, yet no...very well burnt. The skeleton appeared to have been burned in a large and very hot fire, which had almost consumed the bones of the deceased. This skeleton... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - Mammoth Cave (Ky.) - 1820 - 478 pages
...was a ferule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time. Though the handle showed the hole where the blade had been inserted, yet no...very well burnt. The skeleton appeared to have been burned in a large and very hot fire, which had almost consumed the bones of the deceased. This skeleton... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...not much injured by time. Though the handle showed the hole where the blade had been inserted, vet no iron was found, but an oxyde remained of similar shape and size. 4. Cbarcoal and wood ashes, on which these articles lay, which were surrounded by several bricks very... | |
 | Josiah Priest - America - 1833 - 422 pages
...was a ferule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time ; though the handle showed the hole where the blade had been inserted, yet no iron was found, but an oxyde or rust, remained, of similar shape and size. The swords of the ancient nations of the old world, it... | |
 | Josiah Priest - America - 1833 - 418 pages
...world, it is known, were very short. Fourth ; charcoal, and wood ashes, on which these articles lay, were surrounded by several bricks, very well burnt. The skeleton appeared to have been bumt in a large and very hot fire, which had almost consumed the bones of the deceased. This skeleton... | |
 | Josiah Priest - America - 1835 - 418 pages
...old world, it is known, were very short. 4. Charcoal, and wood ashes, on which these articles lay, were surrounded by several bricks, very well burnt....deceased. This skeleton was deposited a little to the south1 of the centre of the tumulus; and about twenty feet to the north of it was another, with which... | |
 | Alban Jasper Conant - Mississippi River Valley - 1879 - 152 pages
...was a ferrule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time ; though the handle showed the hole where the blade had been inserted, yet no iron was found, but an oxide, or rust, remained, of similar shape and size." With another skeleton, in the same mound, was... | |
 | William Franklin Switzler - History - 1879 - 658 pages
...was a ferrule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time ; though the handle showed the hole where the blade had been inserted, yet no iron was found, but an oxide, or rust, remained, of similar shape and size." With another skeleton, in the same mound, was... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1882 - 424 pages
...This he called " the handle of either a small sword or a large knife," and he distinctly states that " no iron was found, but an oxyde remained of similar shape and size." This is evidently purely a case of imagination and misconception. Similar pieces cut from antler have... | |
 | Henry A. Shepherd - Mound-builders - 1887 - 182 pages
...around which was a band of silver. This he called a knife or sword handle, and he says distinctly that ' no iron was found, but an oxyde remained of similar shape and size.' In this connection masses of burnt clay are spoken of as ' bricks very well burnt/ and a large sheet... | |
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The handle either of a small sword or a large knife, made of an elk's horn ; around the end where the blade had been inserted, was a ferule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time. Though the handle showed the hole where the blade... 
