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are called by Northern archaeologists depots cineraires (cinerary 

 deposits). These graves are round bowl-shaped holes, the 

 excavations being from about two to four feet in diameter, 

 and three to four feet deep: into these the remains of the 

 funeral pyre, such as burnt bones of the corpse, ashes, char- 

 coal, fragments of clay, urns, ornaments, jewels, other objects 



Fig. 163. Cinerary deposit. Hole, filled with stones, 4J feet deep, .'J feet in 



diameter. Fyen. 





Fig. 164. Cinerary deposit. Grave, b fVet in diameter. 4 feet deep, lined with 

 cobble stones, burnt bones, and broken fragments of clay urns. Fveu. 



Fig. 165. Cinerary deposit. Grave. 1'i feet lung, <3 fret wide, running from north- 

 west to south-west, with hole -^ feet dec]), containing burnt bones and fragments 

 of ornamented clay urns, remains of a lar^c one-edged knife, &<. Gronneskev 

 field, Fyen. 



weapons alongside an urn in which were 

 a knife and ring of bronze; grave at 

 Asscns on Fyen, containing early iron a^e 

 fibula, with bronze knife, saw, and needle : 



at Helsinge Zealand, grave with iron 

 pin and bronze objects; at P>randtbjerir. 

 near Sorb', Zealand, fragments of iron 

 fibula and objects from bronze age, Jte. 



