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Tlijodoll',' tlie graves of Kings HaltUan Hoitbeiu and his son Eysteiii 

 must be sought for in this h)cality,^ and it is therefore not improbable 

 that the mound Just described is the one which was raised over the 

 remanis of King Eystein, wlio died about the year 780. 



Lack<(l(in(/a Boat.' — While excavating a mound near the river Lacka- 

 liinga, 1 mile from Lund, Torna district, Scania, the remains of a ship 

 were found, consisting of some pieces of iron and about one hundred 

 iron rivets, which varied in length from 2:^ to 4 inches, all having large 

 heads. Wood was found attached to a few of these nails, but not suffi- 

 cient to allow of any reliable estimate as to form or dimensions of the 

 slii}), which had evidently served as the sepulclire of some important 

 ])ersons, Avhose bones were found in an urn around which had been de- 

 posited the following articles: a sword and belt, bridle, and other 

 l)arts of a iun\se's equipment, stirrups, and the jawbone of a dog. The 

 iini)lements much resemble those found in a grave mound near Borre, 

 Norway. 



The boat found at Snape, En(j]an(V (Plate lxxvi). — In the vicinity of 

 the village of Snape, Suftblk, England, are located several tunnili of 

 various sizes, and during the months of August, September, and Octo- 

 ber, 1862, one of these mounds, about CO by 70 feet in diameter and 

 about 4i feet in height, was selected for excavation. 



Among the objects found therein were several vases containing cal- 

 cined bones, of which that given in Fig. 118 resembles in form and color 

 the Anglo-Saxon urns described in the plates of Neville's ''Obsequies;" 

 the urn in Fig. 119 is considered to be British. 



{J\nn\ increasing the depth of excavation a few pieces of metal and 

 wood of doubtful character were discovered, but in such })oor state of 

 l>res('rvatiou tlnit in scraping the dirt from them they broke. They 

 appeared to have originally been of the thickness and length of a fin- 

 ger, with diameter of head of about the size of a florin, some knoltbed 

 rather than flat, and others with a short in^ojecting i)oint. An exam- 

 ination of the broken ones indicated their composition to be laminae of 

 nu^tal and wood with a bolt tlirough them. Owing to tlie stnte of pres- 

 ervation it was decided not to disturb them any more, but to trace them 

 ■out in the soil, removing the superincumbent earth. 



In continuing the excavation what seemed to be a flooi' of consider- 

 able size was uncovered with rows of these knobs jirojecting at reg- 



1 Yngliuatal. 



-Norsk Tidskr. f. Vidcii.sk. og liter., iv, 101. Norske Folks Hist., i, 377. 



^ Brnzi'lUis, Xiles G.: Lackaliluga Fyndet-Beskrifiiing oui ett i Ski'iue antriiftadt 

 fynd fran jernaldeni. In Annaler for Nordisk Oldkyudiglied og Historic. Kjoben- 

 liavu, 1858, p. 179. BruccJins, Niles G. : Niigra fynd af fornsaker fran Bronz-o<'h 

 .leruperioden. In Forhaudliuger ved de .Skandiuaviskc Natnrforskers. Syvende 

 Mr»de, 1850, p. 643. 



^ Condensed from Scptinnin Daridson's description in Proceedings of Society of Anti- 

 qnaries of London, lid series, vol. ii, p. 177. See, also, Francis Fraiuds in "The Field," 

 an abstract of which was printed iu the Archjeological Journal, vol. 20, p. 188. 



