1903] Notes from the Antiquarieu Collection. 9 



suiTOunded by low and narrow rocks which, during a time when the 

 level of the sea was higher than now, would admit the sea to pass 

 over; only in this way I can explain how a boat has come into the 

 relatively small tårn 1 ). About 1.50 m. beneath the present surface 

 of the moss, viz. 2.50 m. above the level of the water, the said 

 fragments were found, making up about one quarter of the whole 

 boat, this one having been divided along the keel and one of the 

 frames, as straight as if cut with a sharp instrument. In the boat 

 were found two stones, so heavy that a man could just lift them, 

 and over it an old pine had grown up; on the spot was also found 

 a good deal of pine-wood from felled and rotten trees. About twelve 

 years ago, an inner frame of a boat, the transverse section of which 

 was described as a triangle with the top pointing upwards, was 

 found by digging close to the same spot; unfortunately it was 

 destroyed. At the present occasion the fragments found would no 

 doubt have been -treated in the same manner if a young man, Mr. 

 Silset, accidentally arriving at the spot during the digging, had 

 not pointed out the pieces as probably being of some scientific im- 

 portance. The boat had been placed with its bow up to a litt le 

 rock; but though the search was extended in all directions, no more 

 was to be found. With great care it was tåken up and brought 

 into a barn ; here some boys, having made their way into it through 

 a small opening, broke it to pieces while studying it in their own 

 manner. " 



The fragments which Mr. Bendixen prevented from being 

 totally destroyed, though they are not very considerable, will enable 

 us to trace many interesting details and make some conclusions of 

 a more general character. The more we must regret, that the 

 relatively large part of the boat, found as it seems in a nearly un- 

 disturbed condition, should have been so badly treated. — In Bergen's 

 Museum the following pieces are now preserved: 

 A part of the top-board, broken in two pieces, 1.25 m. long. 

 A portion of another board, 2.35 m. long, broken in five pieces. 

 A fragment of a board, which has been fastened to the stem. 

 A de feet frame. 

 A rowlock (kjeip), not complete. 



2 ) I think neither geological nor archæological facts will admit the suppo- 

 sition of so great a change in the level of the sea since the time to which we 

 must ref er the boat. The question will be spoken of below. — H. S. 



