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XV. The barren Skjærgaards Halvö, which is about 

 125 metres in height, is connected by a rather narrow low 

 tongue of land with the high mountanous country that lies 

 behind it. Numerous small promontories jut out from the 

 west side of the peninsula. Off it there lie a number of small 

 skerries and islands. 



Here there were no less than eight ruined houses, six 

 tent-rings, and numerous graves. The state of the houses 

 showed clearly that they had not all been simultaneously in- 

 habited. Four of them were so dilapidated that they could 

 not even be measured. 



The dimensions of the remaining four were : 



d 

 Z 



Inner length of 



Inner breadth 



Length 



Magnetic direction of 





from back 



wall to 

 passage-way 



of 

 passage- 

 way 







аз 



Oi 



Э 

 О 



33 



Back 

 wall 



Front 

 wall 



Back 

 wall 



Passage-way 



seen from 



within 





m 





m 



m 







1 



3-1 





3-8 



6-6 





W 



2 



2-8 





31 



3-1 





W 



3 



3-6 





3-1 



5-0 





w 



4 



1-9 





2-8 



3-8 





w 



These four houses were constructed throughout of stones 

 which the builders had fitted together as best they could. No. 1 

 was in an unusually good state of preservation (Fig. 4). Here 

 the platform along the back wall was built up of large flat stones: 

 presumably they did not possess any great abundance of wood. 

 Nos. 2 and 3 were built together, one of the side-walls being 

 common to them both. 



The excavation of the houses yielded no result whatever. 

 The graves, on the other hand, gave a rich harvest: we found 

 a good many different implements in four different graves. In 

 two of them the objects lay in a little chamber built outside 

 the grave, but forming part of it, being joined to the side of 

 the graves where the legs lay. In the third grave the objects 



