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GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 



Fig. 604. Bronze kettle, i real size, Brokaer, Ribe, Jutland; found with fragments 

 cf Roman bronze vessels; and of two massive coats of mail; fragments of 

 artistically woven cloth; double-edged sword with scabbard; comb, fragments 

 of checkers, oblong dice of bone, and fragments of a silver drinking-horn, &c. 



Fig. 605. Ornaments of silver for drinking-horn, Broker, Ribe, Jutland, f real size. 



On the farm of Brottby, Osby, Upland, a grave-mound 

 of about 150 feet in circumference and 13 feet in height was 

 found. The mound, the exterior of which was of earth, 

 covered a cairn, in which was found a stone burial chamber 

 enclosing a clay urn. The upper part contained bones, which 

 were entirely unburnt, below which were pieces of the skull, 

 also unburnt. 1 



1 Among the bones outside the urn 

 were found various fragments of bronze, 

 six clinch-nails of iron, remains of glass, 

 a burnt oblong loaf of bread, two pieces 

 of a head ornament of bronze with rivets 

 of iron, a ring of bronze, twelve beads of 



glass of different size and appearance, 

 a damaged hanging oinament of bronze, 

 a square plate of bronze with iron rivets, 

 a denarius of the Emperor Marcus Au- 

 relius coined in A.D. 162. 



