532 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 





proper sound. Tlie iigure is taken from Antiquities Suedoises ' by 



Montelius. 



Fig. 171 represents a liorn belonging to the Iron age (prebistoric), 



found in a peat bog in Sfklerinanbmd, Sweden. The middle portion is 



an ox horn of which only enough remains to show what material it was. 



The mountings are elab- 

 orate and are attached 

 at either end in such 

 way as to lengthen the 

 horn and increase its 

 power as a musical in- 

 strument. The two 

 mountings are attached 

 by a bronze chain with 

 long links, which has 

 served for suspension or 

 carrying. It is taken 

 from Montelius.- The 

 small ends of many of 

 these horns were de- 

 stroyed when found, and 

 so it is undeterminable 

 whether they were used 

 for music or for drinking. 

 Horns similar in all ap- 

 pearance to these were 

 in that country and in 

 that epoch used for both 

 purposes. 



Fig. 172 represents a 

 horn, probably of the 

 Iron age, with bronze 

 mountings. It may have 

 served for music or for 

 drinking. It was ar- 

 ranged with a long 

 linked chain. It, with 

 two others, was found in 

 a burial tumulus at Soj- 

 vide in Gotland, in a 



stone cist, with about five hundred bronze beads, two pottery vases, 



belonging to a single skeleton. The sjjecimens are in the National 



Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. 



Fig. 173 represents a bronze war trumpet taken from Worsaa\ ' It is 



Volume I, p. 53, lig. 178. - Aucient Swedish Civilization, p. 107, fif 

 •'La Colonisation dc la Rnssic et de Nord Scandinave, p. 72. 



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