350 OCCUPATIONS AND SPORTS OF MEN. 



discovered in the ground a great number of objects which 



Fig. 1329. 



Fig. 1330. Two mountings of iron and a kind of light-coloured bronze, 5^ inches ; 

 consisting of two parallel twisted iron bars, between which there had been soldered 

 a square iron bar, held together by a bronze ring. 5 real size. 



undoubtedly had belonged 

 to one. 1 



Among the different occu- 

 pations mentioned are those of 

 salt and tar making. 2 Salt 

 making or burning seems 

 to have been one of the 

 humblest of occupations or 

 trades. 



Fig. 1331. Two-edged sword, in an un- 

 finished state, with trade-mark. Nor- 

 way. Found with other objects, 

 which appear to have been quite new 

 when placed there, and some unfinished, 

 among which were two swords with 

 similar analogue trade -mark as those 

 found in the Nydam and Viraose bog finds. 



" A man is allowed to take 

 bark and birch of his tenant- 

 land for roofing his house and 

 buy food-salt with it, and he 

 shall make salt if he lives 

 by the sea in order to buy 

 birch and bark with it, and as 



1 Among the objects belonging to that 

 find which are preserved in the Old- 

 northern Museum of Copenhagen, were : 



A small (2f inches long) anvil of iron 

 of the shape commou at the present day. 



A heavy iron hammer, 6 inches long, 

 of similar shape to those now in use. 



A pair of iron shears, 10 inches long, 

 like those used for cutting of metal 

 plates. 



Three iron files, from 1\ to 8| inches 

 long. The cutting of the files being 

 straight across the length of the file. 

 .Similar files have been found in the Vimose 

 bog find. 



An iron chisel, 5J inches long. 



Soldering spoons of iron, containing 

 ivtnnins of a very hard melted metal, 

 which, on examination, has been found 

 to be a whitish alloy of base metals. 



Seven fragmentary pieces of scales. 



Two bronze bells. 



An iron axe, 6 inches long. 



A 4J-iuch long iron point for an arrow 

 or spear. 



An iron spike, 7J inches long, with 

 head. 



An iron key, 5 inches long. 



An iron buckle, in which the pin is 

 wanting. 



A mass of fragments of iron mountings. 



Several fragments of bronze plates 

 covered with thin silver-foil, and of bronze 

 mountings, and tl.in bronze wire; also 

 lumps of melted bronze. 



Three small fragments of bone ; the 

 largest piece has snake ornaments en- 

 graved on it 



2 In N. G. L. ii. 145, tar work on the 

 place where tar is made is mentioned. 



