490 SKELETONS EXCAVATED IN NORTH KURGAN. 
northwest. The right knee lay under the left, but doubled to a slightly sharper 
angle. The left arm was bent so as to bring the hand in front of the face, while 
the right lay along parallel with the vertebre, the fingers underneath the pelvis. 
From between the lower jaw and the collar-bone, I took 67 small white beads 
(N.K. 144, plate 4o, fig. 8), like those found with skeleton No. 11. Along the 
back and beyond the head, at a right angle to the main axis, were traces of air- 
dried bricks as in skeleton No. 5, and, as in that case, the whole lay upon a 
layer of charcoal and ashes. 
Skeleton No. 13.—Again, at the same altitude in terrace 1 I came upon traces 
of a child’s skeleton in the midst of the caved earth of an animal’s burrow. The 
cranium and many other parts of the skeleton were entirely lacking. Among 
the jumbled bones, however, lay 2 small white beads of stone and 3 spirally wound 
cylinders of lead, possibly beads (N.K. 143, plate 40, fig. 3). Beneath the body 
was a layer of fine white ashes, below which the earth was burnt hard and red. 

Fig. 543.—No. 16, East Gallery. Fig. 544.—No. 17, East Gallery. Fig. 545.—No. 18, North Digging I. 
Skeleton No. r4.—The next remains in terrace 1 lay also at + 22.5 feet. They 
were those of a child and lay contracted on the right side with the left knee drawn 
up slightly higher than the right. The left upper arm lay parallel with the main 
axis (southeast and northwest) with elbow bent so as to bring that hand on a level 
with the pelvis. The right arm lay extended under the body and parallel to it. 
As in nearly every other case, the cranium was crushed by the weight of the earth. 
(See fig. 542.) 
In connection with this burial were taken out three bits of spirally wound 
tubes of copper and two plain lead tubes and one flint edge. Air-dried bricks 
were traceable along the main axis before and behind the body, and the whole 
was on a layer of ashes and charcoal with fire-reddened earth beneath. 
Skeleton No. 16.—Skeleton 16 next came to light, far below any human remains 
we had yet found. It was in the east gallery off from General Komorof’s trench, 
at a level of 8 feet below datum on the plain. It was that of a young child and 
