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that the people who made them were not only warlike but 

 seafaring. 



A very interesting- district, rich in rock-tracing, exists on 

 the south-eastern coast of Sweden, in the neighbourhood of the 

 little town of Cimbrishamn, where the rocky coast falls very 

 gently towards the sea, losing itself in a somewhat sandy 

 beach covered with boulders. The most curious tracings arc 

 to be found on the farms of Jarrestad and Siniris. The ships 

 represented present the same characteristics as those of 

 Bohuslan ; in some places they are 26 or 27 inches long, and 

 generally have 14 ribs. There are 

 also wheels with crosses inside, with 

 a diameter of 5 to 6 inches, and in 

 many instances only axes are seen on 

 the illustrations, which apparently is 

 not the case with any of the Bohuslan j 

 tracings. 



At Jarrestad there exists on a rock 

 slanting towards the sea a tracing 

 54 feet in length and 40 feet in height, 

 which contains, besides the charac- 

 teristic figures of the rock-tracings of 

 Bohuslan, a ship with a mast. Another 

 superb tracing is found on a large rock 

 at Simrislund, in which the figures 

 are placed in several groups, and con- f 

 sist of 10 vessels, 33 war axes, two 

 men with weapons, one horse, four 

 circles without crosses, a mass of round Fi | 



excavations or CUpS, Some of which 

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are quite large and deep ; and finally 

 a couple of figures impossible to deter- 

 mine. One of the circles encloses a ship, and passes along 

 the belly of a horse, which is placed upside down in relation 

 to the ship. One tracing represents wheel- tracings and 

 several ships, one of which is 26 inches long, almost on a 

 line with fifteen or sixteen small hollows. Quite close 

 to these web tracings is a low mound, in which were 

 found an urn with burnt bones and a bronze button. TIu> 



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an axe with a handle 

 1 foot 8 inches lonsj, and a 



head nearly i foot 2 inches. 

 -Simrislund, Scania. 



