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.
Fig. 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 512 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 712 ft. long and 1 ft. 8 in. broad. It was covered by a movable lid of corresponding
