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contained the bones of two or four horses of a small breed 

 {Equus caballus minor, Linn.), but it does not appear that more 

 than four or eight chariots were discovered. In 1898 M. Dobrusky 

 found near the old workings the fittings of iron and bronze 

 belonging to a chariot and various human skeletons. In 1899 



Fig. 47. Grave-stone, Mycenae. 



— 1900 M. Seure made further explorations and discovered a 

 chariot, which he has described with admirable minuteness, and 

 the remains of horses of a small size. M. Seure would refer this 

 interment to the fourth century A.D., and would assign it to a 

 settlement of Scythians in Thrace, on the ground that the 



