 | 1802 - 570 Seiten
...by a people who had not the use of metals. ' They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising chy for bricks. — The manner in which they lie would lead to the persuasion that it was a place of... | |
 | 1860 - 578 Seiten
...examples are figured. It is there stated that they lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet, in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks. The strata were as follows : — 1. vegetable earth, 1£ feet ; 2. clay, 2£ feet ; 3. sand mixed with... | |
 | John Evans - 1860 - 92 Seiten
...situation in which they were found. He says, that they lay in great numbers at a depth of about twelve feet in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks, the strata being disposed horizontally, and presenting their edges to the abrupt termination of high... | |
 | 1863 - 584 Seiten
...used by a people who had not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at a depth of about twelve feet in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks. The strata were as follows :— 1. Vegetable earth, one foot and a half; 2. argill, seven feet and... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1876 - 606 Seiten
...separated by 8 inches of loam. 7. Dark calcareous clay, with fragments of wood and other vegetation. about 12 feet in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks. Under a foot and a half of vegetable earth was clay seven and a half feet thick, and beneath this one... | |
 | 1878 - 804 Seiten
...separated by eight inches of loaui. 7. Dark calcareous clay, with fragments of wood imd other vegetation. a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks. Under a foot and a half of vegetable earth was clay seven and a half feet thick, and beneath this one... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1907 - 500 Seiten
...think, evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about 12 feet,...dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks. The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period... | |
 | Government Museum (Madras, India), Robert Bruce Foote - 1916 - 406 Seiten
...Frere states that the weapons, as he terms them " lay in gieat numbers at the depth of about twelve feet in a stratified soil which was dug into for the...section of the strata. He states that shells, which he erroneously regarded as marine,2 occurred in sand at a depth of 9 feet, together with bones of great... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1883 - 462 Seiten
..." were evidently weapons of war fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about 12 feet...dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks. Under a foot and a half of vegetable earth was clay seven and a half feet thick, and beneath this one... | |
 | Charles Keith Maisels - 1993 - 266 Seiten
...used by people who had not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet, in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks. The strata are as follows: 1 Vegetable earth 1,1/2 feet 2 Argill 7,1/2 feet 3 Sand mixed with shells... | |
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I think, evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet, in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks. 
