ROUGH STONE MONUMENTS 



transition to the corridor-tomb proper, in which 

 the entrance passage consists of at least four 

 uprights, two on each side. Of this there are 

 numerous fine examples. A tomb of this type at 

 Broholm in Denmark has a roughly circular 

 chamber separated from the corridor by a kind of 

 threshold-stone. Another at Tyfta in Sweden is 

 remarkable for its curious construction, the 

 uprights being set rather apart from one another 

 and the spaces between filled up with dry masonry 

 of small stones. Possibly there were not sufficient 

 large blocks at hand to construct a tomb of the 

 required size. 



The still later type consisting of a rectangular 

 chamber with a long corridor leading out of one 

 of its long sides often attains to very imposing 

 dimensions. In Westgothland, a province of 

 Sweden, there are fine examples with walls of 

 limestone and often roofs of granite visible above 

 the surface of the mound. The largest of these 

 tombs is that of Karleby near Falkoping. In 

 another at Axevalla Heath were found nineteen 

 bodies seated round the wall of the chamber, 

 each in a separate small cist of stone slabs. The 

 position of the bodies in the Scandinavian graves 

 is rather variable, both the outstretched and the 

 contracted posture being used. It is usual to 

 find many bodies in the same tomb, often as 

 many as twenty or thirty : in that of Borreby 

 on the island of Seeland were found seventy 



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