PREHISTORIC NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 



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scribed by Tacitus,' from whose account it will be seen tbat the ships 

 of the Suiones had stem and stern alike, both ofiering a front against 

 attack from either side; furthermore, in botb an inward curvature ex- 

 isted, while the boats of the bronze age, as illustrated by the rock 

 sculptures, sliowed a marked difference between stem and stern. 



According to Montelius no undisi)utable traces of mast and sails 

 liave been discovered in the ro<'k sculptures of the bronze age, and the 

 boats would seem to have been designed exclusively for rowing. Wor- 

 saic,' however, tigures a boat (PI. lxxii) that i)lainly shows the mast, 

 which, however, may have been added at a subsequent period. 



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Fig. 41. 

 Xn.^iT i)K (ioLi) l!o.\Tis Found at Nors, Dexmahk. 



■ Vctiv-I.ui.l Ira .'itrri.ne.|iii.n7.5-;il.leni ' in A;irb;;;;fr lor Nor.lisl, OI.IKvn.liBliH.I ..« Histur,.-. ISSfi 



Gold Boat.s'-^ (Fig. 41). — A fuller illustration of form is furnished by 

 the unique find, in a bank at Nors, district of Thisted, Denmark, around 

 Avhich are many small gra\'e mounds, and anumg fragments of pottery, 

 of a clay vessel covered with a flat stone, and containing about one huu- 



^ Tacitus: I)h Grermaniae xliv "forma navinm oo tliffert quod iitriumqnc ])rora 

 paratmn semper ai»piilsiii froutem agit." 



- Worm(p, J. J. A.: Zur Altertbumskuiide des Nordens, 1847, pp. 26, 27, PI. xv. 



' Votiv fund fra Stcn og Brouzt^aldereu. lu Meddelelser fra det Kgl. Museum for 

 de 'Sim\ Oldsager(Aar1j0gerf()rNordiskOldkyndigliedog Historic 1886, ii Eaekke, 1 

 Biud, Heft 3, j). 238, 



