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Rh to the Stone Age. Even small fragments such as these throw much light on the manufactures, if we may call them so, of the period to which they belong; but fortunately we need not content ourselves with any such partial knowledge as this, as we possess the whole dress of a chief belonging to the Bronze Age.

64.—Gold torque, consisting of a simple flat strip or band of gold, loosely twisted, and having expanded extremities which loop into one another. It measures 5 inches across, and was found near Clonmacnoise, in Ireland.

On a farm near Ribe, in Jutland, is a tumulus known as Treenhoi, which was examined in 1861 by MM. Worsaae and Herbst. It is about fifty ells in diameter and six in height, being composed of a loose sandy earth. In it, near the centre, were found three wooden coffins, two of full size and one evidently intended for a child. The coffin with which we are now particularly concerned was about 9 ft. 8 in. long and 2 ft. 2 in. broad on the outside; its internal measurements were 7 ft. long and 1 ft. 8 in. broad. It was covered by a movable lid of corresponding