ROUGH STONE MONUMENTS 



different peoples living side by side. But it has 

 since been shown that the cremation mounds 

 belong to a much later period than those which 

 contain megalithic graves. In these last the 

 skeletons were found seated around the walls of 

 the chamber accompanied by objects of flint 

 and other stone, beads of callais, and small gold 

 ornaments. 



Fig. 13. The so-called dolmen- 

 deity, from the tombs of the Petit 

 Morin. (After de Baye.) 



France has also its rock-hewn tombs, for in 

 the valley of the Petit-Morin is a series of such 

 graves. A trench leads down to the entrance, 

 which is closed by a slab. The chamber itself is 

 completely underground. In the shallower tombs 

 were either two rows of bodies with a passage 

 between or separate layers parted by slabs or 

 strata of sand. In the deeper were seldom more 

 than eight bodies, in the extended or contracted 



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