426 THOMAS THOMSEN 



6'3 cm. long, on the other side 10'5 cm. The blade is 2'6 cm. in extreme breadth, 

 the handle at the middle 2'8, and at the end 3'4 cm. broad. Both faces 

 have been polished throughout, some hollows, however, still remaining. At 

 the hinder end a portion of one face has been split off. Material, red- 

 dish slate. 



L. 3357. From the same house as the preceding (PL XXI, 10). A large 

 and heavy knife, the blade and handle of which merge evenly one into the 

 other. The handle is clumsy and rough, with an expansion at the butt end 

 on the side of the cutting edge; its extreme thickness is up to 17 cm. The 

 blade is thickest on the middle line, whence it gradually becomes thinner 

 towards both edge and back; the latter, however, not so sharp as the former. 

 The knife is polished on both faces; the handle end only is rough. Present 

 length 21*5 cm., but the tip is now missing; extreme breadth of the blade 

 6 cm.; of the handle the minimum breadth is 3*5 cm., the breadth at the end 

 4-3 cm. Material, red slate with green spots. 



L. 3643, from the east shore of Stormbugt, house 319. Handle portion of 

 a knife; length 3 cm. At the fore end the blade is shouldered on the side of 

 the cutting edge. At the shoulder the breadth is 2'5 cm., while the extreme 

 breadth of the handle portion itself is 1*9 cm, with a thickness of 5 mm. 

 This part is barely 2 cm. long and consequently intended to be furnished 

 with a haft. The butt end is rounded. Polished on both faces and along the 

 edges. Material, green slate. 



L. 3787, from Snenses, house 407 (PL XII, 1). Blade and handle portion 

 are not distinctly differentiated, and the knife is broadest (3'5 cm.) at the 

 handle. The cutting edge curves slightly along its entire length; the outline 

 of the back is at its hindermost part slightly concave, but at the tip it curves 

 towards the cutting edge. Both edges are sharp, the blade being thickest 

 (4 mm.) nearer to the back; the polished faces do not meet, however, in a 

 pronounced median ridge. The handle portion is rather thicker than the 

 blade, being 5 mm. thick, and polished fairly flat; the handle end is some- 

 what rounded. The specimen in question is evidently intended to be fur- 

 nished with a haft. Length 12'9 cm.; material, greenish slate 1 . 



L. 3838, from Snenses, house 407 (PL XIII, 14). The cutting edge is almost 

 rectilinear, and slopes along its entire length towards the back; the tip, how- 

 ever, is missing. The handle portion contracts on the edge side, but widens 

 again slightly towards the butt end; on the side edges and on the one face 

 it is rough-hewn, on the other it is roughly polished; the butt end is polished 

 off almost square. The cutting edge has been polished separately for a depth 

 of 9 mm.; from here to the back it is of uniform thickness, 5 mm. The ex- 

 treme thickness of the handle is 8 mm. Present length of the knife is 8'4 

 cm., extreme breadth of the blade 3*1 cm., while the handle is 2'5 cm. broad 

 at the middle and 2'6 cm. at the butt end. Material, dark slate. 



L. 3047, from Snenses, grave 422 (PL VIII, 1). The blade and handle are 

 distinctly differentiated. At the edge side the handle portion contracts behind 

 the blade, but widens again at the butt end; at this side the handle is only 

 3'7 cm. long. At the back is as in Mus. Nos. L. 3356 and 3550 a shoulder 

 nearer the point, viz. 6'8 cm. from the butt end, which is oblique. The knife 

 is thickest near the back, the thickness increasing towards the handle, where 

 it is up to 6 mm. Both edge and back curve inwards towards the point and 



1 The knife has been broken into four pieces. When received by the Museum, one 

 of these, it is true, was found among the objects obtained from the houses 522 

 524 excavated by MYLIUS ERICHSEN at Rypefjeldet, but these two finds have 

 evidently been mixed during the voyage (cf. p. 403, footnote 1). 



