454 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



remains of leather or skin, which had possibly been shoes. The cap 

 was without a visor, and it and the garment were covered with a pro- 

 jecting knotted thread, which hung down. The tunic was kept together 

 with a long woolen belt, which went twice around the waist, was knotted 

 in front, and the two long ends hanging down were decorated with 

 fringe. At his left side lay a bronze sword in a wooden sheath lined 

 with skin. At the foot was a round wooden box containing a smaller 

 box of the same kind, which, in its turn, contained an extra woolen 

 cap, a horn comb, and a bronze razor. The bodies in both burials were 

 wrapped in cow-hide. The woman's coffin contained a bronze fibula, or 

 safety pin, a bronze dagger with a horn handle, a spiral finger ring, 

 two bracelets, a torque, and three round and beautifully decorated 

 bronze belt plates of different sizes, with points projecting in the 

 middle. 



There is in the National Museum a square of the same cloth from 

 a similar burial, obtained by myself at Frederichsund, a detail of 

 which, the fiber and mode of weaving, can be seen as shown in Fig. 3 

 of the plate. In these cases the .coffins were different from those at 

 Crump's Burial Cave, the corresponding upper half of the tree trunk 

 having been hollowed out and serving as a coffin lid. 



The London Chronicle (1767) reports the opening of a mound (barrow) 

 near Wareham, Dorsetshire, wherein was found a human burial in the 

 hollowed trunk of an oak tree. The bones were wrapped in a covering 

 of deer skins sewn together. And here was found what was consid- 

 ered a piece of gold lace wrought into lozenge pattern. (Mrs. Bury 

 Pallister, History of Lace, p. 3.) J 



