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four slabs on each side, and one at the north end. These were 

 nearly four feet high, three feet wide, and eight to nine indies 

 thick, and placed side by side. The inner surfaces \vere more 

 or less smooth, though neither cut nor polished, and on these 

 were the tracings. Two of these stones were lost about seventy 



Fig. 36. Dak coffin. Kdiijr.slioi find (Jutland). 



years ago. The grave was covered with three slabs, and 

 pointed north and south. 



In a mound at Havdrup in Ribe amt, Jutland, there were 

 found in 18(il three well-preserved oak coffins. The contents 

 of two had been taken out before the discovery was notified 



Fig. 37. 0;ik coffin, with skeleton body covered with a woollen cloak, Tivenhoi, 

 Jutland ; one half serving ns bed. 



to the authorities, but the third was found in the state shown 

 in the illustration. Near this mound was that of Kongshdi, 

 containing four well-preserved oaken coffins. The content- 

 of these were however not as well preserved as those in the 

 coffins of Treenhoi. At the top of this mound there were 

 discovered clay urns with burnt bones. 



