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It would seem, therefore, that this was a tomh the occupant of which 
had been interred by cremation, the burnt remains having been deposited 
in urns of pottery along with the unburnt armour of the deceased ; and 
these deposits having been covered with flags, the remains of some other 
bodies, which seem to have been also burned, were spread on the top. 
The existence of wood and leather seems incompatible with a very high 
antiquity. 
Tomb II_At a depth of four feet were found two rings of bronze, 
covered with a fine rust, and, one foot lower, a fibula; one foot lower still, 
or six feet from the surface, an iron hook, apparently the remains of a 
spur; and a small ring of iron; together with fragments of pottery and 
large iron circles, with nails and wood inside, which M. de Bonstetten 
supposes to have been the remains of the wheels of a chariot. 
Tomb III.—This tomb was only six feet in length and forty paces in 
circumference. At a depth of two and a half feet were found two bronze 
armlets, two bracelets, a bronze band or collar for the neck, which M. de 
Bonstetten supposes to have been a female ornament, and other frag¬ 
ments of bronze, engraved in relief or stamped. 
The collar was a thin plate or flexible lamina of bronze, with the 
hooks or fastenings still remaining which held it at the back when placed 
round the neck. It is ornamented in the same style of zig-zag which 
has already been noticed on the breast-plate found in Tomb I., the zig¬ 
zag lines being disposed in semicircles, right lines, and triangles. 
The armlets are of a kind not found, so far as I know, in any Celtic 
monuments : they are hollow cylinders of bronze, intended apparently 
to cover the arm from the wrist to within an inch or two of the elbow- 
joint, and the bronze appears to have been fastened to an internal cylinder 
of wood, at least in the case of one of them, of which one-half was perfect, 
and which contained a small bracelet (I presume in bronze, although 
M. de Bonstetten does not say so), and the.remains of a wooden handle, 
which M. de Bonstetten supposes to have been part of a distaff. 
On reaching the level of the ground, M. de Bonstetten perceived that 
in the centre of the tumulus the earth had been moved, and on digging 
down he found the flags of a second tomb, on which lay the umbo of 
a shield. It was ornamented with concentric circles of bronze, engraved 
in chevrons, and fastened round the umbo by thongs of leather, passing 
through the triangular ornaments of the bronze circles, and sewing them 
to the body of the shield, which seems to have been also of leather, from 
the fatty and black paste-like substance with which the flags were co¬ 
vered. There were also found, along with the remains of the shield, a 
small buckle, a bracelet (of bronze, I suppose), a thick armlet of wood, 
not varnished, as some of the other wooden articles were, and a ring 
of amber. 
Tomb IY. contained only some remains of bones, and a piece of oxi¬ 
dized iron. 
Tomb Y.—At two feet from the summit was found a layer of sand 
and burnt bones; two feet lower, in another layer of sand, towards the 
N. W. side of the tumulus, were fragments of coarse pottery, mixed 
