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The excavations were continued till the whole length of the vessel 

 was exposed. All along the outside of the walls, from the prow to 

 the poop, extended a series of circular bucklers lapping one over 

 another like the scales of a fish, of which nearly a hundred, partly 



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painted yellow and black, remain. In many places the wood of the 

 bucklers has been destroyed, and only the central plate of iron is left. 

 The famous tapestry of Bayeux shows quite plainly how the vessels 

 of the vikings were furnished with rows of bucklers (Fig. 2), but it 



