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M. de Bonstetten found large fragments of leather harness, ornamented 
with copper nails arranged in squares and triangles; a piece of wood, 
ornamented in the same way ; several rosettes or buttons of bronze fixed 
to thongs of leather ; an iron horse-bit ; a horse’s breastplate in bronze ; 
and a plate of bronze in the form of a crescent. Further on were found 
large remains of an ornamental grating or trellis-work in bronze, which 
had evidently been fastened upon wood with nails, and was strengthened 
round the edge with bars of iron; more than twenty cones of wood, 
which was found to be hazle, covered with thin bronze, were also dis- 
covered; these M. de Bonstetten supposes to have been the spokes of 
the wheels, and the bronze trellis-work to have been the ornaments of 
the body of a chariot. 
Fragments of a human skull, with the jaw-bone, were also found, 
together with two sword handles; a chain of gold in filigree work; a 
bead or runner of solid gold, about half an inch in diameter, the surface 
of which was highly ornamented in relief. 
All these objects were found under large stones placed upon the flags 
at regular intervals, leading to the conclusion that the chariot had been 
taken to pieces, and its several parts, with the other articles, laid out 
upon the flags. 
In thistumulus was also found a piece of flint, cut like the flint of a 
gun-lock, which M. de Bonstetten supposes to have been an amulet; 
also a triangular, irregular, fragment of stone, three feet wide by two high, 
which was found built intothe side walls of the chamber, and seemed like 
a fragment of some larger stone, the surface of which had evidently been 
cut by human art. ‘The position of this fragment in the wall was 
purely accidental ; two lines crossing at right angles traversed the 
surface of the stone, and within the angles thus formed were several 
circular holes of different sizes, and of about half an inch deep. M. de 
Bonstetten seems disposed to believe that thisstone had some connexion 
with the ancient paganism of the country, and that its having been 
broken and used as the material for ordinary building is an evidence 
that at the period when this tumulus was erected, Christianity had al- 
ready undermined the ancient superstitions. 
Toms VII. contained nothing but an iron ring or bracelet. It had 
an enclosure of stones on the south side only, and was much smaller 
than the preceding. 
Toms VIII.—After penetrating a covering of mortar mixed with 
clay, at a depth of five feet lower, there was found a large vessel of thin 
bronze, without ornament, threefeet high. The diameter ofthe mouth was 
three feet, that of the base one foot four inches. Itstood in a second bottom 
of wood, with a large rim outside, much decayed. The earth in which 
this vessel was embedded was so hard, and adhered to it so strongly, 
that the vessel was much broken in the attempt to get it out; it 
was filled with gray dust and fragments of cloth, which adhered to 
its sides. Near the vessel was found a small plain gold ring, apparently 
part of an ear-ring; also a collar or neck-lace formed of hollow balls of 
thin gold, which had been on a string ; each ball something more than 
an inch in diameter, but all of them much battered and bruised ; also 
