210 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 



The single graves and small groups the sportsman 

 comes across far from all roads or houses are not 

 so numerous as the above estimate would lead one 

 to imagine. Near Mostar there are singularly 

 few; indeed, I only recollect two or three near 

 Suhidol, and also near Eodoc. 



The graves in question are invariably covered 

 with huge stones, very often of quite a different 

 type to the stone of the district, though in some 

 cases no trace of a road enables one to guess how 

 such blocks could possibly have been transported 

 to the place where we find them. The great 

 majority of these monoliths are of the shape of a 

 sarcophagus. Another common variety is best to 

 be compared to a conventional house — an oblong 

 with a peaked roof. Sometimes its walls also 

 slope inwards below. Cubic and oblong blocks 

 occur also, and sometimes what one might call 

 a flat tombstone. Other styles are rarer. Many 

 of these stones are ornamented, as a rule in a 

 very primitive manner. The ornaments comprise 

 crosses (and it is to be remarked that these are 

 purely conventional ornaments, not Christian 

 symbols), crescents (originally a Byzantine, not 

 Moslem symbol, and here also purely conventional), 

 stars, suns, wreaths, rosettes, spirals, and swords. 

 The more elaborate tombs sometimes present 

 groups of figures, battles, the dance of death, or 

 hunting scenes. On a tomb near Konjica these 



