SCANDINAVIA 



skeletons, all of children of from two to eighteen 

 years of age. 



In Denmark these rectangular tombs occa- 

 sionally have one or more small round niches. 

 In 1837 a large tomb was excavated at Lundhoj 

 on Jutland, which had a circular niche opposite 

 to the entrance. The niche had a threshold-stone, 

 and the two uprights of the main chamber which 

 lay on either side of this had been crudely engraved 

 with designs, among which were a man, an animal, 

 and a circle with a pair of diameters marked. 

 Little was found in the chamber, and only some 

 bones and a pot in the niche. 



In Denmark often occur mounds which contain 

 two or more tombs, usually of the same form, 

 each with its separate entrance passage. At the 

 entrance of the chamber there is sometimes a 

 well-worked framework into which fitted a door 

 of stone or wood. 



The late type in which the corridor leads out 

 of one of the narrow ends of the chamber is 

 represented in both Sweden and Denmark. From 

 this may be derived the rather unusual types in 

 which the corridor has become indistinguishable 

 from the chamber or forms a sort of antechamber 

 to it. An example of the former type at Knyttkarr 

 in Sweden is wider at one end than at the other, 

 and has an outer coating of stone slabs. It 

 resembles very closely the wedge-shaped tombs of 

 Munster (cf. Fig. 7). 



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