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vel upon their Graves 5 and that the more- remarkable 
- the Perfons were, the larger were the Tumuli over 
them. I therefore imagined, that this might poflibly 
^e a Burying-place of the "Danes , who, I think, ’tis 
generally owned, were Defendants of thofe People. 
For Satisfa&ion, I caufed the middle and largeft Tu- 
mulus to be dug through from North to South (Sec 
a a in the Figure), fuppofmg by that Method I muft 
crofs the Site of any Body that might have been laid 
there. We dug about Seven Feet deep, even to the 
folid Rock, without meeting-with. anything remark- 
able, but an iron Shell, in Shape of a frnall Egg, with 
a round Hole at one End, but fo cankered and 
decayed, that it eafily broke into Email Pieces ; this 
we judged to have been the Bofs of a Sword. How- 
ever, upon viewing the Trench that we had dug, wc 
perceived upon the Weft Side a Hollow in the Gra- 
ve], which, upon Trial, extended horizontally Four 
or Five Feet f and under this Hollow (See bb in the 
Figure) we found one of the large Vertebrae of the 
Loins, with its Proeefles pretty perfect, but throughly 
petrified 5 and, upon further Search, fe'veral Portions 
of Bones, all alike petrified, but lb difguifed, that 
we could not difeover to what Part of the Body they 
belonged. We afterwards opened one of the Idler 
Tumuli (See cc in the Figure), and found what is 
thought to be the Qs Sacrum, and many other Email 
Pieces of Bones, in a petrified State. It was great 
Odds that wc had found nothing at all 5 but Nature 
favoured us, by prefer ving fome few Tokens of An- 
tiquity. During this Search, the Peejple were much 
alarmed, and flocked to the Place- in- great Num- 
bers, expecting, I prefume, to have feen Wonders j 
but 
