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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.8757#0065
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On the right of this entrance area rises a rock-cut platform about 75 cm.
above the floor-level, stepping up in the recess behind another 20 cm. In the
centre of the lower of these platforms, immediately to the right of the entrance,
had been sunk a rock-cut cist 1-26 m. deep—with a ledge at 33 cm. down, on
which the slabs of its original stone covering had rested. These had been
removed and the cist itself completely rifled, even of its bones, at the time that
the grave was plundered. Two gold beads alone remained as a record of the
many precious objects that may have been originally laid with the body.
On the floor just beyond the edge of the platform were found two gold-
plated studs of a sword, which also, in all probability, had once been placed beside
On the right of this entrance area rises a rock-cut platform about 75 cm.
above the floor-level, stepping up in the recess behind another 20 cm. In the
centre of the lower of these platforms, immediately to the right of the entrance,
had been sunk a rock-cut cist 1-26 m. deep—with a ledge at 33 cm. down, on
which the slabs of its original stone covering had rested. These had been
removed and the cist itself completely rifled, even of its bones, at the time that
the grave was plundered. Two gold beads alone remained as a record of the
many precious objects that may have been originally laid with the body.
On the floor just beyond the edge of the platform were found two gold-
plated studs of a sword, which also, in all probability, had once been placed beside