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.-iinl weapons are thro \\ n in, without order or method. The 

 burnt bones and the charcoal are scattered sometimes over a bed 

 covering a certain space, or sometimes in a heap together. 



In other graves the antiquities are found resting on the 

 black mould itself. What were the causes which led to the 

 temporary disuse of the mound-burials we cannot tell. 



Then came a period when after the burning of the corpse 

 on the pyre the pieces of the bones were gathered into urns of 

 clay, wooden buckets with metal mountings, vessels of bronze 

 or glass bowls ; these latter being very rare. These urns, &c., 

 which are frequently found covered, for protection, by other 

 vessels, were placed in chambers of varying sizes, those of the 

 earliest graves being made of slabs, and just large enough to 

 contain the sepulchral urn. 



It should be mentioned that the development of the form 

 of these graves runs in an unbroken chain, beginning with the 

 lar^-e grave chamber of the stone age, and culminating in 

 the insignificant receptacles for preserving a mere handful 01 

 burnt bones. 



These graves are found sometimes singly, and at others in 

 many hundreds, and even thousands, together. 



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The Kannikegaard cemetery on the island of Bornholm in 

 the Baltic, and that of Mollegaard by Broholm on the island 

 of Fyen, are perhaps the two richest antiquarian fields of the 

 earliest iron grave period. Kannikegaard must have been a 

 verv lai'o-e common graveyard ; it is over 1,000 feet long and 



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over 100 feet wide, and formed, no doubt, part of a more 

 extensive burial ground, as there are other graves some 

 200 feet further on. In nearly all the graves scorched stones 

 have been found, often in such quantities that they nearly fill 

 the grave ; a clay urn was also often found standing at the 

 bottom of the burnt spots or lying on its side, sometimes 

 with the bottom up or in broken pieces; many graves contain 

 no antiquities, and hold only burnt bones and charcoal. 1 



1 l.rolinlm, situated on the S.K. coa^t il<> better than use the language of the 



of Kyen, forms the centre of the area late Hen- F. -Sehested, who in three 



of a magnificent archn'olo^ical Held, summers discovered mme than 10,()0u 



whii-h extends atmiit four kilometres all ditl'erent pieces belonging ti> the three 



around it. In order to give an adequate ages almve mentioned, 

 idea of the richness of 1 he place, 1 cannot 



