. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 562 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. laid perfectly straight, Avitli fourteen cross rows or benches, between most of AA'hich the calcined fragments of human bones, especially of skulls, mixed with ashes, cinders, and boiu'S, were found imbedded in black soil; pottery was found in some of them. One hundred and twenty-nine articles Avere found in the \arious portions of the structure, consisting of fibulfe, bracelets of bronze, rings, spirals
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 562 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. laid perfectly straight, Avitli fourteen cross rows or benches, between most of AA'hich the calcined fragments of human bones, especially of skulls, mixed with ashes, cinders, and boiu'S, were found imbedded in black soil; pottery was found in some of them. One hundred and twenty-nine articles Avere found in the \arious portions of the structure, consisting of fibulfe, bracelets of bronze, rings, spirals, knife blades. Fis. 49. Slaweek Ship, Estonia, Russia. (Ciiiiieil froni Shavers. " Archiiologisclia Untersiichunsen " in \'eili. KhI. j,"-! 'iesellarli.) of iron, ornaments of bronze, and gikled l)eads of glass, amber, and metal, etc. Some of the intervals show distinct traces of cremation, and exhibit thick layers of ashes and cinders; the calcined remains,however, were not left at these places, but were deposited in other intervals. The hoat-shapcd cinerarium at TUrscl, in Estonia^^ recently explored, from its arrangement and tymbological contents, might serve as a fair repieseutative of the numerous Livonian and Estonian cineraria Avith- out urn burial. While differing from most of them in point of material employed, consisting in calcareous slate plates against erratic bowlders, this difference is a mere local one, and results from the absence of the latter and occurrence of the former in the vicinity. Judging from its dimensions and (X)mi>aratively small number of (-alcined human re- mains found, the ship appears to have served as burial place of a small family, which, however, distinguished itself by the wealth and beauty of articles and ornaments offered to the dead. This cinerarium has been made the subject of a thorough study by the late Prof. G. Grewingk, of Doipat, from whose rei)ort'' 1 have bor- rowed the accomi)anying illustrations and n
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