1903] Notes from the Antiquarian Collection. 13 



together by bindings which pass through the said holes in the cleats 

 and corresponding holes in the frames. In the boat from Halsnø, 

 only two fragments of frames have come to us, both much deformed 

 by the drying of the wood. The best preserved fragment, 56 cm. 

 long, shows a triangular section, having been with the broadest side 

 attached to the cleats, while near to the top of the triangle it is provided 

 with square holes, filled for the most part with remains of the bindings. 

 — It cannot be made out how long the frames have originally been. 



The top-board. having nowhere the lower edge preserved, gives 

 no indication about the connection of the boards to each other. 

 But the other large fragment presents just the lower edge in good 

 condition in a length of more than 2 m. It strikes us that we 

 find here no traces of iron-rivets ; along the edge we only see two 

 rows of small round holes, the holes in each row corresponding to 

 the holes in the other row so as to form pairs; and the two holes 

 forming a pair are on the outside communicating through a narrow 

 incision in the wood. In most of the holes there still stick parts 

 of thin wooden fibres, probably roots of some kind, on the outside 

 getting over from one hole to the other through the said incisions 

 (fig. 7). By these fibres the boards have consequently been sewed 

 together, as is evidently proved on one point where a little frag- 

 ment of the next board still adheres to the first. — Also the small 

 round holes look as if made by burning in the same manner as the 

 others. — To make the boat tight, strips of coarse, reddish-brown 

 cloth have been laid between the boards, fixed with a sticky sub- 

 stance looking like tar. 



At last we have before us the portion of a board which was 

 fastened to the stem (fig. 9). The thickness is here extended to 

 3 cm., ending in a sloping surface, intended to join the side of the 

 stem; the outside is slightly rounded where it meets the stem. 

 The small round holes, being here set perpendicularly to the side 

 of the stem, indicate that the bindings, here consisting of thick 

 thread impregnated with tar, have gone through the stem, fastening 

 at once the boards on both sides. Between the stem and the boards 

 there are strips of the same cloth as we have seen between the 

 boards. In the thick part of the fragment in question an incision 

 has been made to give place for the end of the next board. 



A very small fragment has the appearance of having belonged 

 to the board opposite to this one, on the other side of the stem. 



Respecting the construction of the keel, the stem and the 



