. The arts in early England. bove Folkestone, Kent. down, as Tacitus phrases it,1 in detached bodies apart from eachother, just as spring or field or grove offered attractions, andthat it was only by some chance contingency that they pitchedon the site either of a Roman villa or a British hamlet. This independence would not of course preclude the appropriation of older burying grounds where the site of these was convenient. The barrows were themselves generally at some distance from the habitations of the living, and they also 1 T>e Mor. Germ., xvi. I42 THE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY frequently p
. The arts in early England. bove Folkestone, Kent. down, as Tacitus phrases it,1 in detached bodies apart from eachother, just as spring or field or grove offered attractions, andthat it was only by some chance contingency that they pitchedon the site either of a Roman villa or a British hamlet. This independence would not of course preclude the appropriation of older burying grounds where the site of these was convenient. The barrows were themselves generally at some distance from the habitations of the living, and they also 1 T>e Mor. Germ., xvi. I42 THE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY frequently possessed the characteristic of being on compara-tively elevated ground. This is the case with Bronze Agebarrows on the Sussex Downs by Lewes, with the Wiltshiremounds, the Bronze Age barrows on the Yorkshire Wolds,and the Early Iron Age tumuli at Arras near MarketWeighton, Yorks. Now a predilection for an elevated sitefor the cemetery has been ascribed not only to the Anglo-Saxons of our own country but, as by Lindenschmit,1. Fig. 5.—Site of High Down Cemetery, Sussex, from the South. Barriere-Flavy2 and others, to the Teutons in general. So faras English cemeteries are concerned this principle does applyin certain regions, and there are conspicuous instances in whicha site of commanding elevation has been selected for the inter-ment, though the bodies must have been carried up by a longway and a steep one from the settlements. The illustrations,Figs. 4 to 6, exhibit one instance in Kent, another in 4 is a view up from Folkestone towards the chalk downwhich is climbed by the road to Dover. Here at a height of 1 Handbucb, p. 128. 2 Les Arts Industrie^ etc., 1, 3. ELEVATED SITES FOR CEMETERIES 43 about 500 ft. above the sea, just below the white patch thatmarks a chalk quarry, there existed a cemetery that must, onewould think, have served for the Teutonic settlers on the lowerground towards the sea, for there is no trace of an earlyTeutonic population any nearer, a
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