Note 681 — Chapter VII · SURVIVALS IN BURIAL CUSTOMS
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Ibid. p. 386. The exploration of “King Bjorn’s Tumulus,” near Upsala, afforded still another phase of transition. The mound, which belonged to the 4th period of the Northern Bronze Age, contained an oak stem, hollowed to serve as a coffin, but intended, as the relics proved, to hold the cremated remains of the deceased person. (Reliquary, XV. 1909, p. 148.) Cf. Vict. Hist. of Kent, I. pp. 434-5.