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the head-end of the coffin, and partly project through a fissure hetween the bottom 

 and the left side-wall of the leaden coffin. Immediately inside and in front of 

 these pieces of hone lie promiscuously the sacrum and several lumbar vertebrae. 

 Glose to the fissure are found several bones of the left hand. 



17) The fissure at the bottom of the coffin just mentioned begins 47 cm. 

 from the head-end and has a length of 64 cm., its greatest breadth, on the place 

 where the bones protrude, being about 6 cm. The edges bounding it, formed 

 on the one side by the bottom, on the other by the left side-wall of the coffin, 

 are ragged, strongly corroded, and partly bent inwards. The bottom of the 

 coffin is, in a direction from the head-end of the fissure, strongly corroded, 

 rough, grayish-white and brittle, with knobby impressions and disintegrating. 



The leaden coffin which is taken out is seen to be on the outside as well 

 as on the inside, all over, more or less corroded, "with numerous small, ragged per- 

 forations in its walls. 



18) On the bottom of the inner wooden casket in the neighbourhood of 

 the fissure in the leaden coffin, described in the preceding minute, are found, besides 

 remains of wood in the same condition as those found in the leaden coffin, some 

 wrist-bones and the lower part of a radius. 



19) The inner wooden coffin is taken out. It is apparently of oak, the 

 wooden substance in general well preserved, of a light, natural color. On the outer 

 side of the head-end is nailed fast a leaden plate, not embossed, 25.5 cm. in 

 breadth, 31 cm. in height. On the partly tarnished, grayish-white surface is en- 

 graved an inscription of the same content as that on the plate on the lid described in 

 minute 2. The distance between the nail-holes in the plate in question is, from 

 above down, 28.5 cm., from side to side 21,5 cm., the same between both pairs 

 in each direction (cp. minute 4). 



20) Both of the plates mentioned (minutes 2 and 19) are photographed. 



21) The skull is wrapped in white tissue paper and deposited in a ma- 

 hogany case; in the same case is deposited the portion of the lower jawbone 

 described in minute 15, also wrapped in tissue paper; the pillow, referred to in 

 minute 14, is wrapped in tissue paper and laid on top in the same case, after 

 which the lid of the case is closed and locked, the key l)eing received by the 

 undersigned Hultkrantz. The case is bound around with white wrapping paper, 

 is tied with packthread, supplied with a superscription as to its contents, and 

 sealed with two seals, copies of which are to be found under these minutes. 

 The case thus sealed is received by the undersigned Hultkrantz for further in- 

 vestigation of its contents. 



22) The coffins are again replaced, the leaden coffin in the inner oaken 

 coffin, and this one in the outer. All the skeletal parts which had been remov- 

 ed, and the other contents — with the exception of those taken for further exami- 

 nation — are replaced in the leaden coffin. 



23) At this stage attention is called to three additional smaller pieces of 

 bone, which are assumed to belong to the lower jawbone, and which are taken 

 for further examination, are wrapped in tissue paper, and deposited together in 

 a clean glass jar with ground stopper; the jar is bound around with wrapping 



