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coffin of stone or wood. The equipment of the women's graves 

 is characterized by bowl shaped brooches of the oldest type (as 

 R. 640 and 643), tibulas, numerous beads (in the older graves of 

 mosaic; in the younger the single-coloured beads predominate), 

 whalebone piates, a weaver's reed, spindle-whorls etc .The men's 

 graves contain the usual set of weapons. The archæological ma- 

 terial is, however, still small, and the finds and observations too 

 isolated to enable us at present to draw any very definite con- 

 clusions. 



