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a cloak with sleeves, and a long shirt tied round the waist 

 by woollen cords. She also had been buried with a bronze 

 dagger. 



There can, therefore, be no doubt that these very interest- 

 ing tumuli date from the Bronze Age, and I am inclined to 

 place them somewhat late in that period, partly on account 

 of the knife and razor-knife, both of which belong to forms 

 which there are, as already mentioned, other reasons for 

 referring to the close of the Bronze Age, and to the begin- 

 ning of that of Iron. Bronze brooches are also very rarely 

 found in the Bronze Age, and are common in that of Iron. 

 The sword, again, belongs to a form which is regarded by 

 Professor JSTilsson as being of late introduction. 



Finally, the mode of sepulture, though other similar cases 

 are on record, is, to say the least, very unusual ; in the age 

 of Iron, indeed, the corpse was generally extended, but in 

 that of Bronze the dead were, with few exceptions, burned, 

 or buried in a contracted attitude. In Denmark, cremation 

 appears to have been almost universal; in England, I have 

 taken out the statistics of 100 cases of tombs containing 

 objects of bronze, 37 recorded by Mr. Bateman and 63 by 

 Sir R C. Hoare ; and the following table shows the manner 

 in which the corpse had been treated. 



Contracted. Burnt. Extended. Uncertain. 



Bateman ... 15 10 5 7 



Hoare 4 49 2 8 



19 59 7 15 



In 100 cases recorded by Mr. Greenwell, all were contracted 

 or burnt. 



We may consider, therefore, that during this period the 

 corpse was sometimes, though very rarely, extended on its 

 back, and more frequently it was buried in a sitting or 



