Vouni, Korakas and the palaceAlfred Westholm

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… this layer is excavated, whereupon the pieces are collected and saponified. The wood concentrates of course in the middle of the chamber but can be traced all the way out to the corners of the tomb. Over the wood pieces in the middle was found a skull fragment, which gave rise to the idea of a wooden sarcophagus. This, however, is hardly likely to have been the case. More likely is the assumption of a wooden floor, on which both grave vessels and the dead were laid. Of skeletal remains were found, apart from the aforementioned skull in the centre of the tomb, only a couple of insignificant shin bones in the innermost left corner and a skull on each side inside the door. One may thus reckon with 3 to 4 burials. The presumed wooden floor, however, does not lie directly on the rock floor but is separated from this by a c 0,05 m thick layer of find-free rock earth. This layer is excavated with the greatest care without positive result. The vessels cluster almost entirely and … continues