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BOG FINDS. 



We can dress a warrior from head to foot, and wonder at 

 his costly and magnificent equipment, and his superb and 

 well-finished weapons, and can realise how magnificent must 

 have been some of his riding and driving vehicles. 



All these antiquarian bog-finds are within very easy access 

 of the sea, varying in depth beneath the surface of the earth- 

 in the Thorsbjerg bog, 10-14 feet; in the Nydam, 5-7 feet; 



Fig. 340. Bronze breast-plate, covered with gold and silver. Thorsbjerg find. 



the Vimose, 4-5 feet. Those of Denmark have proved far 

 richer than those of the present Sweden, Norway, and the 

 countries situated <m the eastern and southern shores of the 

 Baltic. In numerous instances the objects are unique, and 

 many present a great similarity to those found in the skeleton 

 graves, such as swords with Roman characters upon them, 

 fragments of wooden buckets, checkers, dice, &c. 



