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106 horses skull in the resting-place of a primitive warrior (fig. 6). 

In the vicinity of Hamburg, graves which were supposed to belong to what is termed the ‘iron period’ were opened, and horses' bones were found. At Nienburg, horse and human bones were met with, mingled together, in a cairn belonging to the same period.

The Slavonians sacrificed horses on their graves; for the Arabian traveller, Ibn Fozlan, was a witness to this practice in the 10th century, at the funeral of a Russian prince. The Lithuanians and Samogitians did the same; and the Finn and other Mongolian races, among which may be reckoned the Tschuds, generally buried their horses with the dead. The remains of horses are very often found in the graves of