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Several small fragments, for the most part not to be more precisely 

 identified. 



The boards of the boat, made of pine-wood have preserved their 

 original form quite welL The frames and the rowlock on the other 

 side are not at all in so good a condition. They must have been 

 made of another sort of wood, which has during the process of 

 drying changed to an extent that will scarcely enable us to make 

 out the proper form. 



The top-board is 0.8 — 1.1 cm. thick, and may be conjectured 

 to have been about 30 cm. broad, though the original • breadth is 

 now nowhere preserved (fig. 3). Along the upper edge of the board 

 runs the square gunnel-list scored in the same piece of wood as the 

 board itself, its upper side simply being part of the natural surface 

 of the log, with only the bark removed. The thickness of the 

 gunnel is 3.3 — 2.4 cm. and it is 2.4 cm. high (fig. 4). It is only 

 projecting on the outside, the inner side of the board continuing 

 unbroken to the top. The point, where the projecting gunnel-list 

 meets the board, does not form a sharp angle but is rounded, ap- 

 parently executed with a special gouge. 



The extant part of the gunnel has four small square holes 

 about 1 cm. beneath the top of the board. Square holes of course 

 can not have been drilled in the usual manner, and it may be seen 

 in two places, where the holes were at first begun at some little 

 distance from the place where they were finally executed, that at 

 least the beginning was made by small parallel incisions with a 

 knife or . a similar instrument. The inner surfaces of the finished 

 holes, showing traces of fire, indicate that probably a hot ir on has 

 been used for giving them the final form. These holes are evidently 

 placed here for the purpose of fastening something to the upper 

 side of the gunnel. and the only thing, likely to be placed here, 

 is a rowlock. In one of the holes there still sticks a piece of a 

 bast-string; at the other holes the strings have left distinct im- 

 pressions in the wood. 



From the position of the holes relative to the frames it may 

 be inferred, that all the four holes now left, have belonged to a 

 single rowlock. The frames having been fastened to cleats pro- 

 jecting from the inner side of the board also support the thwarts, 

 the place of which will decide the situation of the oars. Now, 

 from the said combination it will be clear that the oar had its place 

 just in the middle of the space occupied by the four holes, which 



