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Fit;. 594. Bronze basin, over a kettle containing buint bones, \ real size, in round 

 tumulus, inside a little stone cist built of slabs ; with it also were a brouze 

 kettle and a glass cup. Norway. 



Fig. 595. Bronze vase containing burnt bones, wrapped in a dark green woollen 

 cloth with greenish and yellow stripes, fastened with a fibula of silver. In the 

 chamber were a pair of shears and other objects. Ringkjobing nmt, Jutland. 



Fig. 596. Vase, \ real size, found in a round mound. Yang Hdm.. Norway, with 

 fragments of another bronze vessel of the same size, but of a somewhat dillerent 

 form. It has on it the inscription " T.IHKRTINVS. KT. APRVS. CVRATOU [i-;s. POS] 

 VERVNT." Originally it must have belonged to a Roman temple of one of the 

 northern provinces of the empire, and was offered to this temple by two of the 

 administrators (curatores) named above The shape of the letters le.-id> to tin- 

 conclusion that the vase belongs to the first century of our era. 



