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A  Strange  Wooden  Object. 
r, 
in  Western  Norway.  It  presents  many  points  of  connection  with 
the  Germanic  antiquities  of  the  later  time  of  the  great  migra- 
tions,  or  "the  Merovingian  time",  and  consequently  belongs  to  the 
later  period  of  the  early  Norwegian  iron  age,  or  to  about  the 
sixth,  to  the  eighth  century  after  the  birth  of  Christ.  The  deter- 
mination  of  period,  which  has  already  long  since  been  given  for 
these  finds^  is  confirmed  by  the  gold  coin  found  here. 
Fig.  4.     One  of  the  arms  in 
the  „tankering",  from  two 
sides.  V2. 
The  wooden  apparatus  found  upon  the  breast  of  the  deceased, 
is  illustrated  in  fig.  :3  as  it  appeared  when  discovered.  It  is  con- 
structed  of  alder  wood  (alnus)  and  consists,  no  w,  of  3  parts  hanging 
in  each  other,  eaeh  part  being  slotted  out  so  as  to  form  three  divisions. 
Upon  the  sides  ornaments  are  seen  to  be  faintly  scratched  in  (fig.  4), 
most  of  them  plain  rectilinear,  but  a  few  with  curved  lines,  a  twining 
Tibbon,  the  figure  ,of  an  animal  (?)  &c.    The  article  must,  however, 
