I'M! BOG FINDS. 



the destruction, instead of taking place on the pyre, having 

 taken place on the water. 



This destruction was not apparently peculiar to the in- 

 habitants of the North, for Caesar relates of the Grauls, that 

 when they went into battle they made a vow to consecrate the 

 booty to the god of war. After the victory the captured 

 animals were sacrificed, and the rest of the booty was brought 

 together into one spot. 



The narrative of Orosius offers the most striking similarity 

 between this custom and that of the Cimbrians and Teutons, 



Fig. 344. Bronze buckle inlaid with gold and silver, for ring armour; the back 

 shows how the rings were attached, jj real .size. Thorsbjerg Bog-find. 



Reverse. 



who, when coming from the North after their victory over the 

 Romans at Arausia (near the river Rhone), in the year 105 

 before Christ, sacrificed the whole of the booty. He relates : 



' When the enemies had taken possession of two camps and 

 an immense booty, they destroyed under new and strange 

 imprecations all that had fallen into their hands. The clothes 

 \\vre torn and thrown away, gold and silver thrown into the 

 river, the ring armour of the men cut to pieces, the accoutre- 

 ments of the horses destroyed, the horses themselves thrown 

 into the water, and the men with ropes around their necks 



