1903] Notes from the Antiquarian Collection. 21 



conclusion that our boat, showing a construction very like the 

 vessels found at Nydam, must belong to an earlier period than the 

 viking-age, and if we are bold enough to try a more precise fixing 

 of its date, rather seems to be older than those from Nydam. 



Respecting the boat from Halsnø, we have at last to discuss 

 the not uninteresting question, how it may have got to the spot 

 where it was found. Not having seen the place myself, I am not 

 able to make up my opinion on this point with any certainty. We 

 have seen, however, that Mr. Bendixen, thinking it very improb- 

 able that there should be a boat in such a small tårn, supposes 

 that the present moss has been a bay communicating with the sea 

 at the time when the boat found its way in to it. But the level 

 of the moss, now nearly*4 m. above the sea, will probably not 

 admit of this supposition, and I think it quite natural to keep a 

 little boat even in a very small tårn. From the description, the place 

 of ånding has been a convenient place to moor a boat in, and we 

 might easily have inferred, that it has sunk gradually at its usual 

 landing-place, if many circumstances were not contradictory to this 

 explanation. To me at least it seems most probable that there has 

 never been more of the boat on the spot, than the fragment found, 

 a piece of a wrecked vessel, I think, brought here in some un- 

 known way. 



