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were also remains of skeletons of several dogs. The bones 

 and feathers of a peacock were inside the ship, the prow of 

 which, like that of the Tune boat, looked towards the sea as if 

 ready for a voyage. 



One of the finest discoveries, illustrating the use of a ship as 

 a pyre for the burial of the dead warrior, was in a mound 

 12 feet high and 92 feet in diameter, opened in 1S74 in 

 Moklebust Eids parish, Bergen Stift, Norway. 



Among the objects were a vast number of rivets or clinch- 

 nails, and a great number of shield-bosses belonging to shields 

 which adorned the sides of the ship ; perhaps several warriors 

 had been burned together. On the. bottom of the mound, on 

 the level of the ground, was a layer of charcoal and burned 

 soil intermingled with small pieces of bone, which extended 

 nearly to the sides, but was heaviest in the middle. Separated 

 from this by a layer of light shore-sand was another similar 

 layer. 



Inside an oval about 28 feet in length and 14 feet in width 

 these two layers were interspersed with burned bone-splints, 

 clinch-nails, and spikes. 1 In the eastern half of the charcoal 

 layer were found six shield-buckles ; and in the western half, 

 shield-buckles scattered about in various ways, sometimes 

 singly, sometimes close to one another. In nearly every one 

 of them lay a clinch-nail, evidently placed there intentionally, 



1 In a large mound at Void, Borre 

 parish, Norway, was a small vessel about 

 54 feet long, but in such an imperfect 

 state of preservation that only the clinch- 

 nails with pieces of the planks were left. 

 On the right side lay a horse's skeleton, 

 near which were found remains of a fine 

 In-idle and saddle of leather and wood, 

 the mountings of bronze and silver; 

 also fragments of a glass bowl similar 

 to the one found in a mound at Taplun 

 (see p. 319). On the left side lay the 

 skeletons of another horse and of a dog. 

 Above the ship, over the entire mound, 

 was spread a layer of charcoal. Among 

 the objects found were a wrought-iron 

 chain, an iron axe, fragments, and an iron 

 kettle containing ashes, &c. This grave 

 was made in a group of large mounds. 



In Tune, Norway, about five miles 

 from the river Glommen. were found in 

 1867, in a mound, the remains of a 



viking ship, now in Christiana. This 

 mound lay on a hill not far from the 

 Visterrlo, one of the branches of the 

 river Glommen. It was about 24 feet 

 in height, and 500 feet in circumfer- 

 ence. Behind the mast lay the un- 

 burued corpse of a man, with part of 

 the skeleton of a horse at his side. At 

 the stern were the remains of ring 

 armour. 



At Lackaliinga, near Lund, there are 

 several earth-mounds. In one of these 

 were found fragments of a ship, the 

 wood being incrusted with iron rust ; an 

 urn of clay, with burned bor.es and coal ; 

 fragments of weapons, &c. ; at least 

 100 clinch-nails of iron, and some other 

 pieces of the same metal, probably ori- 

 ginally belonging to a vessel buried in 

 the mound ; two larger buckles of iron, 

 like those used on saddles ; two stirrups 

 bits for a bridle, &c. 



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