26 TUMULUS OF TREENHOI. 



animals were extensively used for this purpose, as indeed 

 they have been in all ages of man's history ; many traces of 

 linen tissue also have been found in English tumuli of the 

 Bronze age, and in the Swiss Lakes. Fig. 123 represents a 

 piece of fabric from Robenhausen in Switzerland ; it belongs, 

 however, in all probability to the Stone age. Even a single 

 fragment such as this, throws, of course, much light on the 

 manufactures, if we may call them so, of the period to which it 

 belongs ; but fortunately we need not content ourselves with 

 any such partial knowledge as this, as we possess the whole 

 dress of a chief belonging to the Bronze age. 



On a farm occupied by a M. Dahls, near Eibe in Jutland, 

 are four tumuli, which are known as Great Kongehoi, 

 Little Kongehoi, Guldhoi, and Treenhoi. This last was 

 examined in 1861 by MM. Worsaae and Herbst. It is about 

 fifty ells in diameter and six in height, being composed of a 

 loose sandy earth. In it, near the centre, were found three 

 wooden coffins, two of full size, and one evidently intended 

 for a child. The coffin with which we are now particularly 

 concerned, was about 9ft. Sin. long and 2ft. 2in. broad on the 

 outside; its internal measurements were 7|ft. long and 1ft. Sin. 

 broad. It was covered by a moveable lid of corresponding 

 size. The contents were peculiar, and very interesting. 

 While, as might naturally be expected, we find, in most 

 ancient graves, only the bones and teeth, all the soft parts 

 having long ago decayed away, in some cases, and this was 

 one of them, almost exactly the reverse has happened. 

 Owing to the presence of water, and perhaps to the fact 

 that it was strongly impregnated with iron, the soft parts of 

 the body had been turned into a dark, greasy, substance ; 

 and the bones, with the exception of a few fragments, were 

 changed into a kind of blue powder. 



Singularly enough, the brain seems to have been the part 

 which had undergone least change. On opening the coffin, 



