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with pieces of charcoal and hones, the remains of a bracelet of wood, co¬ 
vered with thin bronze, three smaller bracelets in bronze, a clasp 
(bronze) of delicate workmanship, large fragments of narrow hands of 
bronze, ornamented in relief, intended as ornaments of the head, or, per¬ 
haps, stitched npon a garment, and three buttons much corroded, which 
were found buried in a gray dust, the remains, as M. de Bonstetten con¬ 
jectured, of some kind of stuff or cloth garment. 
Under the second layer of sand were found the stones of a third se¬ 
pulchre, which contained bronze armlets, much broken, a bracelet of 
elastic wire, and a ring of bronze ; also a large ring of amber, too large 
for the finger, hut too small to have been worn on the arm or wrist, and 
a great number of small, thin plates of bronze, resembling the scales of 
a fish, lying together in a brown substance, which damp had reduced 
to a sort of paste, and which was probably the remains of cloth, on which 
they had been stitched, to form a light coat of mail. 
Tomb YI.—This tumulus was higher than any of the rest. It con¬ 
tained, at two feet from the top, a broken urn (clay), full of ashes; a foot 
lower was a bed of cement, formed of stones and sand, which increased 
in thickness towards the centre of the tomb. In it were found, placed 
so that the lines joining their centres would have formed a rectangle, 
four circles of iron, twenty-three inches diameter, with nails which had 
evidently fastened them to wood. One of these was broken, but the 
other three were entire. Near each of these iron circles was an iron 
round plate, one inch broad, and four in diameter, which had been fas¬ 
tened upon wood with nails, and had a rim or flange on its outer circum¬ 
ference of about three inches. From these remains—the position of the 
four iron circles, and the fragments of wood still adhering to them, the 
number of nails, fragments of rings and of iron plates found surrounding 
them—M. de Bonstetten concluded that this tumulus had contained a 
chariot, with four wheels, which had been buried with the corpse or ashes 
of its owner. Between the wheels of this chariot he found also a human 
thigh-bone, and an iron sword, fifteen inches long, in a sheath of bronze. 
Having dug through the thick crust of cement which formed the 
floor of the first chamber, he came upon an immense mass of stones, of 
all shapes and sizes, piled upon each other. At a depth of twelve feet 
from the top of the tumulus were found large flags, on which were a pro¬ 
digious quantity of remains of leather, wood, iron, and bronze, and cir¬ 
cles of iron, or wheels, similar to those found in the upper chamber. Here 
M. de Bonstetten found large fragments of leather harness, ornamented 
with copper nails arranged in squares and triangles ; a piece of wood, 
ornamented in the same way; several rosettes or buttons of bronze fixed 
to thongs of leather; an iron horse-bit; a horse’s breastplate'in bronze ; 
and a plate of bronze in the form of a crescent. Further on were found 
large remains of an ornamental grating or trellis-work in bronze, which 
had evidently been fastened upon wood with nails, and was strengthened 
round the edge with bars of iron; more than twenty cones of wood, 
which was found to be hazle, covered with thin bronze, were also dis¬ 
covered ; these M. de Bonstetten supposes to have been the spokes of 
