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WEAPONS. 



3 real size. 



Fig. 784. Double-edged sword of iron 

 inlaid with silver ; found with balance 

 in a tumulus with charcoal, burnt 

 bones, iron pincers, and remains of 

 twine of lamp-threads. Norway. 



^ real size. 



Fig. 786. Double-edged sword-hilt. In a 

 round tumulus with fragments of 

 bronze kettle, two sharpening stones, a 

 pin with a mobile ring of bronze, amber 

 bead, glass beads, remains of textile 

 stuff with thread of gold weaved into 

 it, two bronze fibula;. About 2 feet 

 higher were found an anvil, several 

 hammers, pincers, two gimlets, a 

 spear-head, a quantity of rivets ; clinch 

 nails and charcoal were scattered all 

 over in the tumulus. Norway. 



HBSiSL' wc3JionTi5i3*i;::SilC* 



real size. 



Fig. 785. Double-edged sword-hilt, inlaid 

 with silver and bronze, with broken 

 blade. In a tumulus with an axe, a 

 spear-head cut and bent, three shield- 

 bosses, two horses' bits, two stirrups, a 

 hammer, the end of a chain, a piece of 

 a two-edged sword, &c. Norway. 



3 real size. 



Fig. 787. Double-edged sword with hilt 

 inlaid with silver ; in a tumulus with a 

 hook of iron, a spear-head cut on pur- 

 pose on one side ; an axe, a shield-boss 

 damaged with blows of an axe, a horse's 

 bit, a scythe blade, fragments of an iron 

 kettle. These antiquities lay in a kind 

 of sepulchral chamber. A big chain 

 of iron, &c , was also found. Norway. 



