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to the body of the shield, which seems to have been also of leather, from 
the fatty and black paste-like substance with which the flags were co- 
vered, There were also found, along with the remains of the shield, a 
small buckle, a bracelet (of bronze, I suppose), a thick armlet of wood, 
not varnished, as some of the other wooden articles were, and a ring 
of amber. 
Toms LV. contained only some remains of bones, and a piece of oxi- 
dized iron. 
Toms V.—At two feet from the summit was found a layer of sand 
and burnt bones; two feet lower, in another layer of sand, towards the 
N. W. side of the tumulus, were fragments of coarse pottery, mixed 
with pieces of charcoal and bones, the remains of a bracelet of wood, co- 
vered with thin bronze, three smaller bracelets in bronze, a clasp 
(bronze) of delicate workmanship, large fragments of narrow bands of 
bronze, ornamented in relief, intended as ornaments of the head, or, per- 
haps, stitched upon a garment, and three buttons much corroded, which 
were found buried in a gray dust, the remains, as M. de Bonstetten con- 
jectured, of some kind of stuff or cloth garment. 
Under the second layer of sand were found the stones of a third se- 
pulchre, which contained bronze armlets, much broken, a bracelet of 
- elastic wire, and a ring of bronze; also a large ring of amber, too large 
for the finger, but too small to have been worn on the arm or wrist, and 
a great number of small, thin plates of bronze, resembling the scales of 
a fish, lying together in a brown substance, which damp had reduced 
to a sort of paste, and which was probably the remains of cloth, on which 
they had been stitched, to form a light coat of mail. 
Toms VI.—This tumulus was higher than any of the rest. It con 
tained, at two feet from the top, a broken urn (clay), full of ashes; a foo 
lower was a bed of cement, formed of stones and sand, which increased 
in thickness towards the centre of the tomb. In it were found, placed 
so that the lines joining their centres would have formed a rectangle, 
four circles of iron, twenty-three inches diameter, with nails which had 
evidently fastened them to wood. One of these was broken, but the 
other three were entire. Near each of these iron circles was an iron 
round plate, one inch broad, and four in diameter, which had been fas- 
tened upon wood with nails, and had a rim or flange on its outer circum- 
ference of about three inches. From these remains—the position of the 
four iron circles, and the fragments of wood still adhering to them, the 
number of nails, fragments of rings and of iron plates found surrounding 
them—M. de Bonstetten concluded that this tumulus had contained a 
chariot, with four wheels, which had been buried with the corpse or ashes 
of itsowner. Between the wheels of this chariot he found also a human 
thigh-bone, and an iron sword, fifteen inches long, in a sheath of bronze. 
Having dug through the thick crust of cement which formed the 
floor of the first chamber, he came upon an immense mass of stones, of 
all shapes and sizes, piled upon each other. At a depth of twelve feet 
from the top of the tumulus were found large flags, on which were a pro- 
digious quantity of remains of leather, wood, iron, and bronze, and cir- 
cles of iron, or wheels, similar to those found in the upper chamber. Here 
