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wood, and only the arms of the deceased, with his horse, 

 were given to the flames with him ; then a mound of 

 earth was heaped up over all/ Caesar speaks of Celtic 

 tribes as burying with the dead their most valuable pos- 

 sessions, and sacrificing human beings, probably, also, the 

 horse. 



In Celtic, Slavonic, and German graves or cairns, 

 horses' bones are expected to be found. At Mecklen- 

 burg the presence of horse-remains is not unfrequent. In a 

 barrow on the Baltic coast, the skeleton of a very tall man 

 was discovered eight feet below the surface or summit of 

 the mound ; and beside the skull, on the left side, lay bones 

 of a horse's head, and several flint knives at the top and 

 bottom. More than a dozen human skeletons lay around 

 in a circle, the skulls inwards towards the principal one, 

 and a number of stone weapons. At another place a stone 

 cairn was opened in which were two graves ; in both were 

 arms, stone implements and weapons, amber ornaments, 

 and the remains of unburnt horses' bones. Similar remains 

 were found in other stone cairns. At Calbe, near the 

 former place, Wagner discovered the skeleton of a horse, 

 surrounded by at least twenty urns, in a grave marked on 

 the surface by three large stones. Wilhelm mentions a 

 grave in which the skull of a skeleton rested on the cra- 

 nium of a horse, and the other bones of the animal lay 

 around the grave. In tombs supposed to belong to the 

 Alemannic tribes, this antiquarian discovered similar re- 

 mains. 



At Selzen, on the Rhine, Lindenschmidt found a 



' Tacitus. Chap. 27. 



