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distance between their free ends is 19.5 cm. 4 rivet-holes, situated rectangularly 

 on the lid, form the corners of a square, the portion of which directed towards 

 the head-end of the coffin covers the greater part of the V-formed incision. The 

 distance between each pair of holes is 28.5 cm. in the longitudinal direction of 

 the coffin, and 21 cm. in the transverse direction. ['] 



Upon the lid at the foot-end of the coffin lie minute remains of decayed 

 wood and small patches of mouldered cloth, with rests of rusty iron nails hanging 

 to it (remnants of the covering of the coffin?). 



5) At this stage of the examination, a photograph from above is taken 

 of the coffin. 



6) After the lid had been bent up towards the foot-end there is seen, in 

 the open metal coffin, a bed of manifold, sized wadding, in appearance of quite 

 new, clean material, completely covering the other contents of the casket. 



7) In that portion of the leaden coffin which belonged to the head-eud. 

 at an extension of, on the left side, 92, and on the right side, 97 cm., the open- 

 ing in the lid, described in minute 4, is found to have been produced by the 

 freeing of the lid quite near the wall. The surface thus exposed [the separated 

 edge of the lid] protrudes panel-like from the plane of the side-wall, is 0.4 to 1 

 cm. broad, rather even and grayish-white, tarnished. The rest of the lid, to the 

 extent of 63 cm. on the left, and 53 cm. on the right side, is separated 2 to 3 

 cm. from the side-wall, probably through cutting of the lid, with a fresher me- 

 tallic surface in the cut. 



8) The layer of wadding is carefully removed, whereupon there become 

 visible at the head-end of the coffin a human skull and an upper arm bone, 

 resting upon a layer of decayed particles and little pieces of wood, and in the 

 remaining parts of the coffin larger pieces of decayed wood and fragments of 

 cloth, among which there appear skeletal parts. The contents of the coffin exhale 

 a strong, mouldering acid odor. 



9) A photograph is taken before the above-described contents are disturbed. 

 10) The skull, as was said,] lies free upon the particles of wood, resting 



upon its lower surface with the face turned towards the head-end of the coffin 

 and somewhat upwards, and with some inclination towards its [the skulls] left 

 side. Its distance from the head-end of the coffin is about 10 cm., from the 

 nearer, right wall of the coffin 5 to 6 cm. The skull has a brownish color and 

 seems to be rather well preserved. The lower Jawbone is missing. [^] 



" 11) The above-mentioned upper arm bone, which is found to belong to 

 the left side of the body, lies, like the skull, free from the remaining skeletal 

 parts, having its upper end towards the head-end of the coffin, on a par with 

 the skull, at the left side of the coffin, and in about the latter's longitudinal direction. 

 The bone is of a dirty brown, discolored, and strongly decayed and weathered. 

 12) After the taking out of the skull and the upper arm bone just men- 

 tioned and after the removal of larger fragments of wood, the mass of decayed 

 wooden rests partly resembling sawdust which envelopes the remaining parts 



[Evidently the name-plate mentioned in minute 19 was originally fastened at this place. 

 [Compare, however, minutes 15 and 23.] 



