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In some of our graves from the Bronze age we find ornamented 

 stones either as gables, or as a cover over the stone coffin. Not 

 always do these stones cover the grave itself, they have sometimes 

 been found lying about in the mound among the materials of which 

 the grave was made. 



A mound from Rege, Haaland parish, Stavanger county, con- 

 tained two graves. Besides showing several diverging details in 

 its construction, the northern one had an ornamented stone in the 

 western gable. The ornaments are concentric circles, cups, and a 

 small figure like a staff. This grave is described by M. Loeange 

 in "Aarsberetning for foreningen til norske fortidsmindesmerkers be- 

 varing" 1882, p. 86. Fig. 1 shows an ornamented stone from a 

 mound at Møklebust in the same parish, this stone having been 

 placed as a head-stone at the southern end of the grave. Another 

 stone ornamented with nine cups was found on Lunde farm, in the 

 same parish. We cannot tell, however, whether this stone was one 

 of the gable-stones of the grave, or had been placed by itself in 

 the mound. I have no picture of this stone. 



Lying among the stones forming a ring round the grave, a stone 

 having a spiral pattern at the upper end was found at Bore, Klepp 

 parish. 



A stone having 35 cups spread over its surface was found at 

 Tjøtta in the same parish. Most likely it lay in the wall of a large 

 grave, the ornaments having been turned towards the inside of the 

 grave. Neither of this stone have I any picture. 



The southern end of a grave at Re, Lye parish, Stavanger 

 county, was covered by another stone ornamented with cups. 



Fig. 2 shows a stone from Auglend, Time. Lye parish, which 

 is said to have been found in a mound. 



