PREH STORIC NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 



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and in view of the I'act that the neolitliic inliabitauts of that section 

 obtained their tlint supplies from the West Baltic lauds aud that such 

 intercourse had continued during the Scandinavian bronze age (500 

 B. c.) the helleristiuger of which show rowboats, he connects the 

 boat graves of Estonia and Livonia with the typical form of Suionian 

 ships as shown in the Xydam boat belonging to the identical period 

 (tlie third century), and suggests that the stone ship-burials served as 

 the forerunners of the wooden funeral shijjs of the Vikings. 



Fig. 88. 



Fin. 80. 



Fig. 90. 



Fig. 92. 



Lance Point and Knives from ('inerarium at TC'rsel, Russia. 



(rnpii-.l from C.Grewiiiak, in Verb, g^l . E.st. Ges. 18HH. n<l, x.ii. ) 



Another fact to be considered in this connection is the age of the Ro- 

 man coins fouiul in the various cineraria of Estonia and Livonia; they 

 represent the period of from 30 b. c. to 244 A. D. Among them are: de- 

 nars of Augustus, Vespasian, Faustina, Antoninus Pius, a Gordian, etc., 

 thus representing almost the identical coins found in the Nydam boat, 

 the consideration of which will form the next chronological step. 



Before taking up the Nydam boat, however, the following table, 

 showing the dirnensious of a number of boat-shaped stone positions, 

 may not be out of ])lace here. 



/(( the lolloiviiKj idhic the (liii\<nxi<ni>i are given of <i innnher of thrae hoat-nliaped stone 



po>iitio)ls. 



Locality. 



Ka,seberg, Scania, Sweden 



Neu Karrisbof, Livonia, llussia . 



Kds, Ujiland, Sweden 



Rnn.sa, Stockliolni, Sweden 



Villefcr, Livonia, Russia 



Vcstermarie, Bornholm. Denmark 

 I'laidtioi', Cutlaiid, Sweden 



Length. 



Width, 



