CHAPTER XIV. 



DESCRIPTION OF SOME REMARKABLE GRAVES AND THEIR 



CONTENTS. 



Sepulchral chambers containing skeletons The objects in these graves not 

 destroyed Numerous Roman and Greek objects The Yalloby grave 

 The Bavenhoi grave The Varpelev graveyard. 



To return to the subject of graves, we will now speak of t he- 

 sepulchral chambers containing skeletons. They generally 

 vary in size, from the length of a man upwards, being about 

 four feet wide and two or three feet high. Sometimes the 



Natural level 

 ol the earth. ; 



Fig. 528. Mound, about 13 feet above the ground, showing sepulchral chamber 

 five fret below the surface. The body h;id beeu placed upon woollen pillows 

 filled with down. Six oak logs supported the side planks forming the sepulchral 

 chamber, which had an oak floor. The space between the timbers h;id been filled 

 with tresses of wool and other hair of animals. The chamber had been carefully 

 covered with clay. Bjerring, near Viborg, Northern Jutland. 



corpse had been laid upon woollen stuff, cattle-hair, or birch- 

 bark, the head turned southwards, and the feet towards the 

 north. The inside lining is often of planks, between ^x 



