THE BRONZE AGE. 



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and in the Swiss Lakes. Fig. 168 represents a piece of fabric 

 from Bobenhausen in Switzerland; it belongs, however, in 

 all probability, to the Stone Age. Even a single fragment 

 such as this throws much light on the manufactures, if we 

 may call them so, of the period to which it belongs ; but for- 

 tunately we need not content ourselves with any such partial 

 knowledge as this, as we possess the whole dress of a chief 

 belonging to the Bronze Age. 



On a farm near Eibe, in Jutland, is a tumulus known as 

 Treenhoi, which was examined in 1861 by MM. Worsaae 

 and Herbst. It is about fifty ells in diameter and six in 

 height, being composed of a loose sandy earth. In it, near 

 the centre, were found three wooden coffins, two of full size 



FIG 70. 

 FIG. 69. FIG 71. 



Comb. 



Woollen Caps. 



and one evidently intended for a child. The coffin with 

 which we are now particularly concerned was about 9ft. Sin. 

 long and 2ft. 2 in. broad on the outside; its internal measure- 

 ments were 7Jft. long and 1ft. 8 in. broad. It was covered 

 by a movable lid of corresponding size. The contents were 

 peculiar and very interesting. While, as might naturally 

 be expected, we find, in most ancient graves, only the bones 

 and teeth, all the soft parts having long ago decayed away, 

 in some cases and this was one of them almost exactly 

 the reverse has happened. Through the action of water, 

 owing perhaps to the fact that it was strongly impregnated 

 with iron, the soft parts of the body had been turned into 



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