1890.] 
A  Strange  Wooden  Object. 
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at  the  same  place  are  marked  with  a  cross  cramponee  (swastika), 
others  with  a  cross,  circles  with  cross  &c.  All  the  vessels  are,  ac- 
cording  to  ViRCHOW,  certainly  of  Slavic  origin.1) 
An  ornament  which  reminds  of  it  is  seen  upon  a  gold  brac- 
teate  in  the  Berlin  numismatic  collection.2) 
A  kind  of  cross  ornament,  which  occasionally  appears  on  anti- 
quities  from  the  iron  age  (e.  g.  upon  a  pendant  ornament  of  gold  in 
Christiania  museum,  illustrated  by  Kygh  in  "Norske  Oldsager"  fig. 
700)  but,  in  particular,  very  frequently  in  Swedish  runic  stones 
from  the  early  Christian  era,3)  has  a  resemblance  to  our  ring  puzzle 
in  so  far,  that  it  appears  to  represent  two  plates,  which  by  means 
of  a  longitudinal  groove  in  the  middle  are  stuck  into  each  other. 
If  that  is  to  be  done  in  reality  the  whole  must  be  wrought  out 
of  one  single  block.  The  ornament  is  illustrated  in  fig.  17.  That 
it  is  really  to  be  explained  in  such  a  manner,  and  not  as  the 
ordinary  "latin"  cross,  ornamented  in  the  middle  with  a  swastika, 
as  I  have  seen  stated  somewhere,  may  be  seen  from  the  ornament 
fig.  16,4)  which  can  not  be  explained  in  other  manner,  than  as  two 
plates  hanging  in  each  other,  although  the  groove  in  the  middle  is 
here  so  large  that  only  the  outer  edge  of  the  plates  remains. 
The  remarks  we  have  now  supplied  have  not  solved  the  mystery 
•of  the  Evebo  "tankering".  They  have,  however,  as  I  believe,  given 
indications  for  its  solution,  and  point  to  the  hope  that  continued 
investigations  may  enable  us  to  elucidate  the  interesting  question. 
Every  contribution  to  the  elucidation  of  the  subject  which  may  be 
supplied  by  those  who  may  read  this  paper,  will  be  most  gratefully 
received  by  the  author. 
*)  Virchow  in  Zeitschrift  fur  Ethnologie.  Vol.  XX,  Verhandlungen,  pag\ 
485  and  Plate  X. 
2)  Atlas  for  Nordisk  Oldkyndiglied,  fig.  247  b. 
3)  Vide  e.  g.  To  rin,  Vestergotlands  runinskrifter,  3die  Samling,  fig.  88; 
and  Gr  6  r  an  son,  Bautil  Stockholm,  1750,  passim. 
4)  Upon  a  Eunic  stone  in  East  G-othland,  Bautil.    No.  1150. 
