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GRAVES. 



The most interesting of the graveyards which I have seen is 

 that of Hjortehammar, situated in the province of Blekinge on 

 a narrow promontory lost in the maze of islands which dot the 







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 Fig. 717. Square stone-set graves with large boulders at the corners and centre. 



Fig. 718. Triangular grave ; sides of triangle about 50 feet ; corner stones about 

 3 feet high. In the middle of the sonth-west sHe are two stones, 5 feet apart, 

 with a slab between them, one 3 feet, the other 4 feet high. Thorsbacken, 

 Nerike, Sweden. 



coast of Sweden on this part of the Baltic. It is joined now 

 to an island situated near its further end by a causeway and a 

 small bridge. This is not only remarkable from its position 



