IN THE ISLAND OF MOEN. 



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and lines. At (/) was another skeleton, in a similar position, 



with a flint flake, an amber bead, and some fragments of 



pottery. Figs. 144, 145, represent one of the skulls from this 



FIG. 144. FIG. 145. 



Skull from a Danish Tumulus at Moen. 



stone chamber. Several other skeletons were found sitting 

 round the side walls, but they had unluckily been removed 

 and thrown away before the arrival of M. Boye. With them 

 were at least 20 different jars or urns, all of them inverted, 

 and prettily decorated with points and lines. 



Besides these objects, the earth in the chamber contained 

 five flint spear-heads, a fragment of a flint spear which had 

 been broken and worked up again, two small flint chisels, 

 53 flint flakes, varying from three to five and a half inches in 

 length; 19 perfect, and 31 broken, amber beads, of which 

 the greater number were hammer-like, the rest tubular or 

 ring-shaped. The passage was filled up by earth, mixed with 

 fragments of pottery, and small stones. About the middle 

 was a skeleton, with the head towards the east, at the side 

 of which were five flakes and an amber bead. Close to the 

 feet was a jar, unornamented, and much ruder than those 

 found in the chamber itself. Not the smallest fragment of 

 metal was found either in the chamber or in the passage. 



Again, as a second case of the same sort, I may mention 



