!)() THE BRONZE AGE. 



In some of these oaken coffins are found wooden bowls with 

 handles, and ornamented with inserted pins of tin. 



The articles of dress, found in a most extraordinary state of 

 preservation in the oak coffin, kept from decay no doubt by 

 the tannin in the oak, show how the people of the North 

 dressed well before iron had come into use among them. These 

 are the earliest perfect garments known, and even the latest 



Fig. 38. Oak cotfiu, Treenhoi, Jutland ; one half serving as bed. 



period to which they belong cannot be far from three thousand 

 years ago, and they may be of a much earlier date. 



Among the most interesting graves which have given 

 remarkable results in regard to dress are the mounds of 

 Treenhoi by Vandrup, near Kolding, in Jutland. 



In a man's grave was a small cap covering the head of the body, 

 which was wrapped in a deer-skin, composed of several sewn 

 pieces of woven material, and ornamented outside with woollen 

 threads, which had been inserted, and terminating with knots. 



