INTERMEDIATE Fotllls OF (illAVES. 7!) 



the other. Most of them were probably covered with one or 

 more stones; and although these have in many places long 

 ago been destroyed or removed, they are sometimes still found 

 in their place. The direction of these coffins is almost always 



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from north to south, and they are generally surrounded by 

 a mound of stones of more or less stone-mixed earth. This 

 form of grave was probably the outcome of the omission of 



Fig. 15. Interior of the passage grave at Uby. The spaces between the large stones 

 filled with pebbles. The roof is formed by two large stones which have been 

 cut from a large block. 



the passage. Several intermediate forms have been found, 

 showing how the passage was gradually lessened until it can 

 only be traced in the opening which narrows at the south 

 end of the coffin. 



The length of the stone coffin w r as generallv from 8 to 



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Vt>\ feet, width from 3 to 5 feet, height from 2^ to 5 feet. 

 A few, especially in Vestergotland, are from 19^ to 31 feet in 

 length, one of the longest graves of this kind in Sweden being 



