Wagon E

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The wheels from this wagon had been taken off the axles and placed on top of the horses, which had not been interred with the same care as the horses with the other wagons. The lead sheathing of the curved part of the wooden yoke, which was placed on the horses’ shoulders, has been preserved in situ. Animal horns and wild boar tusks decorated the yoke. Several items were found in the wagon, which for some reason had not been placed in the grave. They included two bronze amphorae with rounded belly and handles which terminated in masks of elderly sileni (half goat, half man) and four square glass vessels which had been placed in a wooden box from which the bronze strips, the iron nails and the iron rings have been preserved.

 
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