442 



EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. xu. 



a peat bog at Nydam in Schleswig, by M. Engelhardt 1 

 in 1862, along with iron arms and implements, and in 



FIG. 165. Boat engraved on rock, Haggeby, Uplande. 



association with Eoman coins ranging in date from A.D. 

 67 to A.D. 217. It therefore may be assigned to the 

 third century. It was made of oaken boards, and was 

 seventy feet long by eight or nine wide. The same 

 kind of boat is also mentioned by Tacitus 2 as being used 

 by the Suiones, with stem and stern alike, fitted for 

 being drawn up on the beach and without sails. It is, 

 however, clear from his description that this was not the 

 form usually employed in the navigation of the North 

 Sea, and he had in his mind ships with a prow and 

 stern wholly unlike one another. 



1 Guide Illustre du Muse'e des Antiquites du Nord d Copenhague, 2 me ed., 

 p. 25. See also Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, p. 8. 



2 Germania, c. 43. 



