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61626364… the dead person would in that case first have been covered by a thin earth layer, which was packed down, and on top of that the bronzes were later laid. The find-circumstances are not such that they can be characterized as accidental, especially as the same thing has been established concerning a number of objects. Beside the sword hilt (60) a fingerring of bronze (61) (levelled 0,68) is found, quite level with the highest parts of the skeleton, which at the same time is exposed in the disturbed place. In the vicinity also a spindle whorl of pottery (62) is taken out (levelled 0,65). Note! that the floor at this place slopes in towards the wall, and that the levelling figures for the same layer should be higher at the deeper places. Cf. the longitudinal section! In the vicinity of the bronze ring (57) an incised vessel (63) frag. height . was found at the level of the ring. Further in, a other base-ring jug was exposed. height (64) … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain