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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



iilar intervals of a few inclies. Carefully scraping- or sweeping with 

 the hands between the rows, it became apparent that the intervals were 

 of wood, but so disintegrated and crum})liug as to be almost of the 

 color of the soil. Further search revealed continnations of these rows 

 at an obtnse angle from the floor njjward; and finally the shai)e of a 

 boat was nncovered, and it appeared that tlie pieces of metal and wood 

 above alluded to were the rivets used in joining the jjlanks, laid clinker- 

 wise, ami that the boat was flat bottomed. 



Urns from Boat fouxd at Snapk, P^ngland. 



(Ri-l>nHlii,H,l hojii i..|,.r l,y S. n:ivia>.Mi. in I'r.).-. Su.-. Ant.ii I...n.l.ii,. V,,l. ii.) 



The boat was 48 feet in length, 9 feet inches in width, and 4 feet 

 high. There Avere rows of rivets on either side and 4 or 5 at the bot- 

 tom of the boat, and in each row 7 rivets occupied the space of 'A feet. 

 All the rows terminated in 2 rivets, laying one at the stem and the 

 other in the stei'ii. This will be better understood from the accom- 

 panying plate of the boat with longitudinal and transverse sections. 



Among the articles found in the boat were some liuman hair of 

 auburn color, a couple of pieces of cloth, a ring, and some pieces of 

 glass. The ring was a thick band of gold with raised center, the sides 

 ornamented with filagree of the later Eoman type; and the setting, 

 apparently Anglo-Saxon, held an onyx of dark color, the intaglio l)eing 

 evidently of Eoman origin. The general form may be compared to the 

 Saxon rings found at Bossington, Hants,' Warkworth.^ 



The glass, of light orange tint, was in minute pieces, and obviously 

 of Anglo-Saxon origin. In its unbroken state it must have resembled 

 the vases found at Fairford, Gloucestershire;^ at Castle Durham;^ at 



'.Journal of the British Archieological Association, Vol. r, p. 241. 

 -ArchiBological Journal, Vol. vii, p. 191. 



="' Arfihaiohigia/' Vol. xxxiv, p. 82; Wylie's Fairford Grovi-s, PI. 1. 

 <Ibid, Vol. XV, PI. 37. 



