Haakon Schetelig. [No. 7 



they have really been found in the small district of Lomen. As 

 to the grave, we can deduce one fact from the present surface of 

 the iron, showing a special character owing to the influence of 

 fire ; consequently the person in question must have been burned and 

 his personal equipment has been put on the pyre with him. 

 The antiquities are the following: 



a) Iron-Sword (fig. 1) resembling Rygh fig. 188; 81 cm. long, 

 whereof 11.5 cm. form the spit, for fastening the handle. The 

 blade is 5 cm. broad at the upper end, and has a broad, flat 

 middle part. The top of the spit is a little clinched to keep the 

 pommel. On one side is a stamped mark, consisting of a nearly 

 circular depression, divided by a cross with a round point in 

 each of its angles. The upper part of the mark is deeper and 

 more distinct than the rest of it, the stamp having been put 

 not quite perpendicularly on the iron. On the same side of 

 the spit and close to the mark, a few drops of meitet silver 

 are seen on the iron ; they are the only remains of the original 

 decoration of the handle. The handle itself, as usual consisting 

 of wood or some other combustible material, has perished in 

 the fire. 



The iron is in a good state of preservation. 



b) A two-edged spear-head of iron (fig. 2) belonging to the type 

 Rygh fig. 208 with a sharp rib along the middle of the blade. 

 The total length is 18.5 cm.; "the blade must have been about 

 4.5 cm. broad. In the socket is fixed an iron-rivet, not visible 

 from the outside. On the upper side of the rivet is still seen 

 a piece of burned wood, probably a fragment of the shaft of 

 the spear. — The blade is badly corroded, especially the edges. 



c) Spear-head of iron, with a long, narrow socket and only one 

 barb. It has been designedly bent and damaged, according to 

 a rite very often met with in Scandinavian graves from that 

 time, though only in cases where cremation has been used. 

 The original length is 21 cm. whereof the blade 4.5 cm. 



d) An earthen vessel in the form of a flower-pot; the pottery is 

 thin and well burnt, and as usual in the case of Norwegian 

 vessels of this sort the clay is mixed with fibres of asbest to 

 make it more coherent. As a whole the work is carelessly 

 executed. — The brim being nowhere preserved, I can not 

 make out the original height; in the present state it measures 

 12.5 cm. The diameter of the bottom is 12.5 cm. 



