PASSAGE GRAVES. 



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Fig. 6. Passage srave on Axvalla heath, near Lake Venern, Vestergotland, Sweden, 

 situated on a hill overlooking a flat country. Numerous graves belonging to that 

 ]ioricil are found in the neighbourhood. 



The walls are made by large slabs, those in the passage being lower than the nlahs 

 nf the quadrangle. The roof is of flat slabs of granite, 5 to (3 tVet above the 

 floor, a similar one serving as a door, closing the outer end of the passage, which 

 is 20 feet long, and 2i to 3 feet broad, and 3 feet high. The mortuary itself 

 (the quadrangle) is 3'J feet long by 9 feet broad. 



T/ie den I sit alomi the walk, young and old, men and -.vomeu, the chin resting in both 

 hands, with their legs drawn up. Thin slabs form the cells round each skeleton, 

 and are about 3 feet high, consequently do not reach the roof. Arrow points, 

 knives, etc., of flintstone, are found with the men, pieces of amber with the women. 



Numbers of similar graves are found in Sweden and Denmark, a tingle grave s( ine- 

 times containing nearly one hundred bodies. 



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Fig. 7. Plan of above grave. 



