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bone blade in No. 6), with sharp polished edges and two curved 

 bevels which follow the edges. There are two fairly large per- 

 forations for rivets close to the base of the blade in its me- 

 dian, one of Ihem near the edge, the other towards the centre. 



Inv. Amd. 9 (PI. XV, 9) is a fragment of a harpoon head, 

 apparently of a similar type to inv. Aind. 1, probably with a 

 bifurcated double basal barb, for the stump which has been 

 preserved which forms the centre part of the original body, 

 broadens out behind, and the inner part of the shaft socket is 

 still seen at its base. The line-hole is laterally situated, and 

 distinct line grooves extend from its openings, 

 rearwards. The under side of the body must 

 have been much narrower behind than the upper 

 side, so that the cross section is almost triangular. 



The upper side seems to have been almost 

 plane, possibly however with a ridge right be- 

 hind. Around the line hole the body is a little 

 flattened laterally. 



Inv. Amd. 10 (Fig. 7 and PI. XV, 10) is a 

 peculiar little head, the fore part of which is 

 high and narrow, nearly elliptical in cross sec- 

 tion, with a slit of 2 cm in depth in which a 

 loose blade has been fixed with a nail (1 nail-hole). 



There is a ridge on the under side from the nail-hole 

 rearwards, while the upper side is slightly rounded. The whole 

 of the hind pari from the middle backwards is cutoff on both sides 

 by two similar cuts of equal size, which have left lateral oblique 

 shoulders, running parallel to one another on both sides of the 

 head. As a result of this cutting, the hind part has assumed 

 the shape of a flat tang near the centre of which a transverse 

 hole is seen. This part of the harpoon head works as a 

 lever which can be rotated round a horizontal axis in the 

 perforated hole. The longest side-edge must be regarded to 

 be the upper one. The base of the head is cut off aslant. 



Fig. 7. 



Harpoon head. 



Skærgaardshalvo. 



