I. A Roman Sword with the Smith's Mark. 



In the month of June 1884 a small collection of antiquities 

 was sent to Bergen's Museum through Mr. Halvard Bergh, teacher 

 in the district of Lomen in Yalders. At the museum, some of the 

 objects, dating from a more recent time, were put aside as worth- 

 less; for the remaining objects a decent sum of money was for- 

 warded to Mr. Bergh, with a letter asking, if it would satisfy the 

 owner. In spite of repeated applications no answer was received, 

 and consequently the objects could not be entered into the catalogue 

 of that year, and they are not to be found in the annual list of 

 antiquities, published by the Antiquarian Society of Norway. They 

 have been kept in the stores of the museum, and were not exhibited 

 until last year. They have never been published in a satisfactory 

 manner 1 ). 



The most important objects, then bought for the museum, be- 

 long to a sepulchral equipment from the early iron-age. Though 

 we have no special information about the locality or the grave itself 

 and other circumstances, which generally are the most interesting 

 points about a pagan grave-find, I think it will be profitable to 

 take the things themselves into closer consideration. Especially one 

 of the objects will prove to be of more than usual importance. 



Respecting the locality and the funeral arrangements we know 

 nothing except the short information given by Mr. Lorange ; here 

 the things are said to have been found by excavating a tumulus, 

 belonging to the farm Arnelund in Lomen, the parish of Vestre 

 Slidre, Kristiane amt. But, as far as I can make out, there exists 

 no farm of that name in the said parish; I feel sure, however, that 



x ) They are onry mentioned once, in a short note hy Mr. A. Lokange, Ab. 

 1884, p. 100. 



