106 



DESCRIPTION OF A BARROW 



the middle, not far from the bottom, a skeleton was ex- 

 tended (at 6), with the head towards the north. On the south 

 side (at c and d), occurred two crania, each of which lay on a 

 quantity of bones, indicating that the corpses had been 

 buried in a sitting posture. At e was a similar skeleton, 

 close to which were three amber beads, a beautiful flint- 

 axe, which did not seem to have been ever used, a small 

 unfinished chisel, and some fragments of pottery, ornamented 

 with points and lines. At /was another skeleton in a similar 

 position, with a flint flake, an amber bead, and some frag- 

 ments of pottery. Figs. 102, 103 represent one of the skulls 

 from this Stone chamber. Several other skeletons were found 



FIG. 102. 



FIG. 103. 



Skull from a Danish Tumulus at Moen. 



sitting round the side wal^ but they had unluckily been 

 removed and thrown away before the arrival of M. Boye. 

 With them were at least twenty different jars or urns, all 

 of them inverted, and prettily decorated with points and 

 lines. 



Besides these objects, the earth in the chamber contained five 

 flint spear-heads ; a fragment of a flint spear which had been 

 broken and worked up again ; two small flint chisels ; fifty- 

 three flint flakes, varying from three to five and a half inches 

 in length; nineteen perfect, and thirty-one broken amber 



