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was discovered lying in the direction of the valley, from southeast to 

 northwest, and on October Uil, 1863, a third boat, built of fir, was found 

 at the side of the second boat and i)arallel with it. 



The first of these boats was in a very poor state of preservation, 

 having evidently been intentionally destroyed; nevertheless the frag- 

 ments found and taken up displayed sufficient resemblance to the 

 corresi)0ndiQg i)arts of the second and third boats to indicate the same 

 construction for all three. The second and best preserved was placed 

 ill the hands of Mr. Stephenson, restorer of autiipiities, at Copenha- 

 gen, and of the restored l)oat the accompanying Figures 93 and 1/4 are 





Fij;-. 93. 

 Nydam Moss 15oat. 



(CnDi(-a Iruin C. Engelhardt, "Denmark in Ihe Early Iron Age.') 





FiS. 94. 

 NvDAM Moss Boat. 



(fopic.l IroMi C. Eneelhanlt, "Denmark in thn E.irly Irnn Age.' ) 



rei)resentatioiis as figured by Prof. C. Engelhardt*, under whose direc- 

 ticm the excavation of Nydam Moss had been conducted and from 

 whose work the following description has been taken : 



'^When fiist discovered the boat was, of course, no longer m its 

 original state, in course of time the washers of the bolts by which the 

 planks were fastened together had corroded, the ropes joining the outer 

 ])arts of the l)oat to the inner framework had been destroyed, the planks 

 ill consequence had separated and resumed their original shape, the 

 rowlocks had fallen from the gunwale, the ribs had sunk out ol their 

 ])rop(^r places and lay in different directions, whilst the stem and stern 

 posts had detached themselves from the bottom plank. By degrees, as 



En<ielh(ir<U, C: Denmark in the Early Iron Age. London ^886. 



