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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



At a depth of fi'oin 6 iuclies to ji foot below tlie surface a larji'e .stone 

 plate wa.s found, serving as a cover to cliests built of ]:)lates of either 

 natural or artilicial formation. The cells of these chests were occupied 

 by ui-ns (figs. 42, 48, 44, 45) composed of gravel mixed with clay but 



rig. 42 



lug 4J Fig. 44. 



Cinerary Urns from boat-shapeu Grave in Courlanu, IIussia. 



(Coiiieil from C. Grewinqk: "Die Steiiischiffe von Mcisching, etc.," in Verh. Est. gel. Gesellschalt. ) 



little burnt, and containing more or less cremated human remains. 

 The accomi^anying PI. Lxxiii, copied from ^'C. (4rewingk, Die Stein- 

 schifle von JMusching" shows in a the arrangement and outlines of these 

 boat positions; in h a sectional view of one of the Musching boats; in c 

 the stone chests Mdiich have served for the reception of the crenuited 

 remains of the dead in the funeral urns shown in figures 42, 43, 44, 45. 

 Similar boat-shaped graves occur in Estland,^ Estnish Livonia.^ 



' Kriise Necrolivonica, Generalbericbt 10, Tafel 59, fig. 9. V^erhaud. gel. Estu. 

 Ges, i, 2, p. 9. Grewingk, ('.: Das Steiualter der Ostseeprovinzen. Dorpat, 1865, iip. 

 56, 74. Grewingk, ('.: lTcl>er heidiii.sclie Griiber Rnssiscb Litaiiens (Verb. gel. Est. 

 Gcsell.vi, 1870). Hannen : Samml. inliiud. Altertb. Russlauds, 1875, 1876. Gretvingk, 

 ('.: Die iieolitliiscbeu Bewobuer von Kunda, 1884. WiKkowatow, I'.: Bericbt iiber 

 die Aufdeckiiiig einer scbilformigcu Steiusetzuiig bei Tiiiscl in Estland (in V'erb. d. 

 gel. Est. Ges. zii Dorpat, Bd. xni. 1887). (irewingk, ('.: Derscbifformige Asebenfried- 

 bof bei Tiirsel (Verb. d. gel. E.-^t. Ges., xiii, p. 5-71, 1887). Grewingk, C: Ostbaltiscbe, 

 dem beidnisebeu Todteneultus dieuende Steiusetziingen, 1887. 



' Kruse, Necrolivoniea, Beilage e. p. 10. Grewiiigk, C: Das Steinalter der Ostsee- 

 provinzen, Dorpat, 1865. A'eiii. gel. E.stn. Ges., vi, 3, 4, pp. 266, 269. Tafel six, fig, 

 40, 41. Hartmauri, Vaterljiud. JMii.seiini. Dorpat 1871. Taf. viii, fig. 6, 7, Taf. xi, fig. 11. 

 Sitzungsb. gel. Estu. Ges., 1873, ]). 42; 1875, p. 159; May, Oct., Nov., Dec., 1876. Gre- 

 ivivgk, C: Z. Arcbieologie des Balticums (Arcbiv. f. Autbrop, x). 



