TH. PETERSEN. 



[1907 



on the gable, a projecting, hinged bronze plate is to be seen fornning 

 the handle of a thin bronze stick which lies horizontally along the 

 front wall and runs into a small loop attached to the cover; on 

 moving this stick out or in the shrine can be opened or shut. The 

 photographic reproductions, to which I refer, will, however, give 

 the best idea of the appearance and construction of this interesting 

 antiquity. 



The finder supposed that the reliquary had been enclosed in 

 a larger wooden box, some fragments ^) of which were found quite 

 close to the shrine. An impressed stamp of a medallion on one 

 of the wooden pieces confirms this view. 



11. A somewhat large fragment, 25 X 16 cm., of a wha le- 

 bone plate like R. 449.^) The upper edge seems to have been 

 incised in a similar manner to that of the type-specimen, and on 

 the face are cut some double ring ornaments. 



12. A fragment, 20 cm. long, of a weaver's reed of 

 w h a 1 e b o n e, 



13. A very short one-edged iron s word with remains 

 of a wooden sheath. The blade has scarcelj^ been more than about 

 25 cm. long ; the width of the hilt about 4 cm. The object might 

 almost be called a long knife. 



14. A portion of a two-edged iron sword with relics of 

 a wooden sheath. Of the hilts only the lower one is extant, being 

 straight and about 9 cm. long. 



15. An iron axe-head about 18 cm. long and 9 cm. broad 

 over the edge. The specimen is beard-shaped, the expansion of 

 the lower part of the blade towards the edge less developed than 

 in the type R. 559. 



16. An exceptionally slender iron shield-boss, 11 cm. 

 high, 9 cm. in diam. over the opening, the border at the base 2 

 cm. wide. The specimen may be compared with those from Rhein- 

 hessen, and Wiltshire, England, (especially the former one but 



') The wood is pronounced by Mr. F o s 1 i e to be fir. 



2) See K. Rygh in the Proceedings of the Roy. Soc. at Trondhjem 1899, 

 No. 9, pp. 12 ff. and an account by the author in Ab. 1905, pp. 376 ff. 



