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Inv. Amd. 98 from Dunholm, is a piece of a whale's ver- 

 tebra, a circular flat piece of spongy bone, circa 23 cm in 

 diameter. In the centre is seen a square hole, which has been 

 cut obliquely through from one side to the other. 



According to Ryder ^), the passage-ways in the settlement 

 he found at Sydkap at the mouth of Nordvestfjord in Scoresby 

 Sund were partially covered with the vertebrae of whales, the 

 rib-bones of whales being likewise used there as rafters. 



1) Ryder 289. 



