CHAPTER IV. 



TUMULI. 



ALL over Europe; we might indeed say, all over the 

 world, wherever they have not been destroyed by the 

 plough or the hainmer ; we find relics of pre-historic times 

 camps, fortifications, dykes, temples, tumuli, etc. ; many of 

 which astonish us by their magnitude, while all of them 

 excite our interest by the antiquity of which they remind 

 us, and the mystery with which they are surrounded. Some 



FIG. 96. 



Danish Tumulus. 



few, indeed, there are, such, for instance, as the Roman Wall 

 in England, the Dannevirke, and Queen Thyra's tumulus, ia 

 Denmark, of which the date and origin are known to us, but 



