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fragments of chariots, bits for horses, wheels, pieces of coats 

 of mail, and arms of various sorts, including no less than a 

 hundred two-handed swords. All of these were made of 

 iron, but with them were several fibulao of bronze, and some 

 coins, of which about thirty were of bronze, struck at Mar- 

 seilles, and presenting a head of Apollo on one side and a 

 bull on the other y both good specimens of Greek art. The 

 rest were silver pieces, also struck at Marseilles. These coins, 

 and the absence of any trace of Roman influence, sufficiently 

 indicate the antiquity of these interesting remains. 



Some very interesting " finds " of articles belonging to the 

 Iron age have been made in the peat bogs of Slesvick, and 

 described by M. Engelhardt, Curator of the Museum at 

 Flensborg. One of these, in the Moss of Nydam, comprises 

 clothes, sandals, brooches, tweezers, beads, helmets, shields, 

 shield bosses, breastplates, coats of mail, buckles, swordbelts, 

 sword sheaths, 8ft swords, 500 spears, 30 axes, 40 awls, 160 

 arrows, 80 knives, various articles of horse gear, wooden 

 rakes, mallets, vessels, wheels, pottery, coins, etc. Without 

 a single exception, all the weapons and cutting implements 

 are made of iron, though bronze was freely used for brooches 

 and other similar articles.* 



In the summer of 1862, M. Engelhardt found in the same 

 field a ship, or rather a large flat-bottomed boat, seventy 

 feet in length, three feet deep in the middle, and eight or 

 nine feet wide. The sides are of oak boards, overlapping one 

 another, and fastened together by iron bolts. On the inner 

 side of each board are several projections, which are not made 

 from separate pieces, but were left when the boards were cut out 

 of the solid timber. Each of these projections has two small 

 holes, through which ropes, made of the inner bark of trees, 



* See Lubbock in Nat. His. Rev. Oct. Runic characters. I had the pleasure of 

 1863, and Stephens in Gent. Mag. Dec. visiting this interesting spot with M. 

 1863. On one of the arrows were some Engelhardt in 1862. 



