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Gabriel  Gustafson. 
[No.  1. 
of  preservation ;  above  the  thigh-bone  lay  an  umbo  of  iron,  and  at 
the  head  a  clay  vessel.  At  the  other  end  of  the  chamber  were 
found,  yet  another  clay  vessel,  remains  of  several  wooden  vesselsr 
two  spears,  and  a  large  wooden  bucket  with  bronze  platings,  in 
which  lay  a  well  preserved  wooden  cup.  The  place  in  the  grave 
for  all  these  articles  is  known.  But  besides  these  articles  there 
were  found  a  considerable  number  of  others  without  it  being  pos- 
sible  to  now  determine  in  what  part  of  the  grave  they  had  lain 
deposited.  Among  those  articles,  worthy  of  notice,  may  be  enumer- 
tated,  fragments  of  a  scale-weight,  with  7  weights  of  bronze  belonging' 
to  it  and  protected  by  a  well-preserved  leather  bag ;  a  pair  of  scissors. 
Fig.  2.    Plan  of  the  grave-chamber,  with  some  of  the  antiquities  (the  skeleton 
is  pricked  out  according  to  its  probable  position). 
in  a  wooden  sheath,  and  a  bundle  of  arrow-points ;  an  awl  whose  wooden 
handle  is  wonderfully  well  preserved;  small  fragments  of  a  glass 
vessel  whose  shape  cannot  now  be  determined;  several  plates  and 
mountings  of  silver,  several  brooch-clasps  of  silver,  some  gilt  ones ; 
a  knife  in  sheath  &c.  also  a  gold  solidus  from  the  reign  of  the 
East-Roman  emperor  Theodosius  II  (408 — 450),  supplied  with  loop 
and  also  pierced  in  the  lower  edge.  There  was  found,  besides,  in 
about  the  situation  of  the  breast  of  the  corpse,  the  remarkable 
article  of  wood  which  I  propose  to  discuss  here. 
The  find,  which  is  fully  described  and  illustrated  by  several  - 
drawings  in  my  paper  already  referred  to,  pertains  to  a  well-known 
group  of  grave-finds,  which  are,  in  particular,  frequently  represented 
