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BOG FINDS. 



or rams. How high the prows were raised above the plank 

 raniint be stated. Since this date the diggings have been 

 done by inexperienced men, and consequently have given 

 but little results. This sacred part of the laud of the Danes 

 had passed into the hands of its German conquerors, for the 

 Nornir 1 are fickle, and what is fated to one generation to 

 is often, in the course of time, undone by another. 



Fig. 432. The end of the bottom plank of a vessel of 

 red pine, with a ram at each end, from Nydam 

 Bog-find. The pointed lines show how the spurs 

 protruded from the stem. 



Fig. 433. Fig. 434. 



Fragments wooden scabbard with bronze mountings. \ real size. 



NYDAM BOG FIND. 



1 See p. 385. 



