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shape of the groove seems to indicate that 2 blades have been inserted, its depth furthest back being 1 cm, and then suddenly decreases to 0.4 cm, deepening again towards the point to 0.9 cm. A small wound plug of ivory; a bear tooth with a hole in it; a cut off piece of antler with a hole near the base; a walrus molar, and Image missingFig. 17.Naujan. Grave 39. Cover removed. various small pieces of wood.

Group IV. On the Naujan Hill. Nine graves, 44–50 m above s.l.

Grave 40. The roof, with the exception of one stone, removed; 1.35 × 0.6 m; E.—W. The skull crushed, almost in the middle of the grave but nearer the E. end; the other parts of the skeleton disarranged: the limb bones along the south side, the pelvis in the west end, the lower jaw bone to the NE. Outside the grave, at its west end, a part of the skull.

Grave 41. Practically undisturbed; 1.15 × 0.55 m; E.—W. Two long stones lie longitudinally over the grave. Only few very decayed bones; several pieces of the skull and lower jaw to the east, a limb bone to the west.

Grave 42. Fairly large, strongly built; the roofing stones removed from the E. end; 1.6 × 0.65 m; E.—W. The bones disarranged; the skull to NE., but the position of the spinal column shows that it originally lay in the W. Depth about 60 cm.

Grave 43. Much disturbed; roof removed; 1.1 × 0.55 m; S., slightly to the W. Empty.

Grave 44. Large, strongly built; roofing stones removed from the N. end; 1.35 × 0.55 m; NNE.—SSW. The skull to NE., as also most. of the limb bones and the lower jaw; the pelvis to SW.; in the middle of the grave a whale limb-bone.