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THE BEOXZE AGE. 



numerous on the shores of the Baltic than in other parts 

 of Kurope. Sometimes the burnt remains have been found 

 \\rapped in clothing, and placed in an ordinary sized coffin, 

 Inu more generally these burnt bones are preserved in urns 

 of clay enclosed in a small stone cist. 



Fig. 48. Cairn covered with earth, bronze age, Kongstrup, Zealand. Diameter nearly 

 40 feet; height, 10 feet; covered with about 3 feet of clay, containing over thirty 



urns, one of which was fastened with a resin-like substance ; with burnt bones 

 and cinders, protected by little sepulchral cists made of slabs. 



These stone cists of about the length of an average man 

 arc interesting as indicating the transition to the small ones 

 containing burnt bones; some of these of a size large enough 

 lor an unburnt body have contained only a small heap of 

 burnt bones, and evidently belonged to the period when the 

 cremation of the dead began to prevail. Many of these little 



Hg. 4'.i. Mound of the bronze age, covering a double ring of stones; diameter of 

 outside ring 86 feet; containing several buiial-places, with urns and burnt 

 bones. Near Kallundborg, Zealand. 



cists are only large enough to enclose a clay pot, in which the 

 bones were collected; sometimes no coffins were found, but 

 only clay pots containing ashes, a small bronze knife, a bit 

 of bronze saw. or something of that kind. In some cases 

 the bones were put simply into a hole in the mound and 

 the whole covered with a stone slab. 



