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three holes on the back, the others two each. A fine bronze axe 

 was found behind the skeleton ; it appeared to have been set in 

 wood. All the bronze articles bore a very fine patina. A deposit 

 of animal bones was found on one side of the tumulus. 



The other tumuli, opened on this occasion, formed a group of 

 low, flat barrows, on the top of the Burrow wold, which had become 

 almost obliterated by tillage. Two of them contained the remains 

 of females, who had been buried with their personal ornaments. 

 The one first opened was twenty-two feet in diameter, and two feet 

 in height. In the centre, upon the original surface of the ground, 

 the female skeleton was laid on its left side, with the head towards 

 the north-east, and the hands up to the head. The body had been 

 doubled up. On the right wrist was a beautiful bronze armlet, of 

 the snake-head pattern, with a succession of oval swellings length- 

 wise. Close to it was a delicate bronze fibula, described as " of the 

 bow shape," and of extremely elegant workmanship, which had 

 originally had a tongue of the same metal, but it had been broken 

 off and replaced by an iron tongue, " fixed iu a piece of wood, which 

 passed through the bronze coil of the fibula." The lady had been 

 buried with a necklace of beads, of which fifty- three were of glass, 

 and seventeen of amber. Amber beads, it may be remarked, are 

 usually characteristic of the post-Roman period. The glass beads 

 are described as extremely beautiful, all blue and ornamented, with 

 one exception, with a zigzag pattern in white enamel. The excep- 

 tional one was larger and more globular in form than the others, 

 and was ornamented with annulets of white. Scattered about the 

 mound were found a quantity of potsherds, and a few flint chip- 

 pings. The other tumulus was twenty-four feet in diameter, and 

 only one foot in elevation above the surrounding ground. At the 

 centre, as in the other, on the surface of the ground, lay the skeleton 

 of a female, on its left side, with the head to the north, the hands 

 raised to the face, and the body doubled up. As in the tumulus 

 last described, the lady had borne on her right wrist a bronze 

 armlet of the most beautiful description, "resembling a delicately- 

 formed cog-wheel, with rounded teeth on both sides, the rim between 

 the teeth being ornamented with. three grooved lines." 



An interesting discovery has been made in Trance of what is 

 designated as a Celtic Foundry of the Bronze Age. It appears 

 that a peasant, while digging in a potato-field in the village of 

 Larnaud, near Lons-le-Saunier, in the department of the Jura, 

 struck against a piece of metal, which he immediately drew to the 

 surface. The spot was examined with care, no doubt in the hope of 

 finding treasure ; and at a depth of a little more than a foot, and 

 within a space of somewhat more than a square yard, an immense 

 number of objects in bronze, consisting on the whole of upwards of 

 eighteen hundred pieces, was found matted together. Among them 

 were arms, implements, personal ornaments, and other things of 

 almost every possible description ; bars -of bronze, residues from melt- 

 ing, two moulds, saws, a file, chisels, and punches, knives, fish-hooks, 

 harpoons, arrow-heads ; fibula?, buckles, buttons, brooches, bracelets, 

 and great varieties of other personal ornaments ; chains, apparently 



