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præget yngre jernalders typ, men skaftet afbrækket
i nederdelen.
I skibets bagerste del eller mellem gravkammeret
og agterstavnen fandtes:
a.
b.
d.
langs efter skibets midte og omtrent 30 cm. over
dets kanter en rundholt af naaletræ (pl. IV fig.
16), afbrækket i den tykkeste, tæt med gravkamme-
rets væg liggende ende, jevnt fortyndet mod den
anden ende, rimeligvis fra først af hvilende i tver-
armen paa den bagerste opstander (jfr. pl. I fig. 1,
4) og senere tilligemed denne af det overliggende
jordlag trykket ned, saa den brækkedes; udentvil har
rundholten været det øverste stykke af skibets mast,
skjønt der i dens top ikke findes noget hul for raa-
ens heisetaug (jfr. s. 20), og desuden maa den,
naar hensees til tykkelsen af mastefodens top (pl.
IV fig. 15, jfr. pl. I fig. 1), have været noget læn-
ger; den havde et tæt og tyndt belæg af tøj, enten
af sejlet eller maaske snarere af teltet, med vedheftede
stykker
nogle af de foran (s. 38) omtalte sneldelignende træ-
stykker;
af bastetaug af forskjellig tykkelse samt
2 smækre stænger af grantræ, staaende ved siden
af hinanden paa gravkammerets agterste tverstok mod
dets væg; den ene (pl. VI fig. 16) ret afskaaren i
den ene ende, som er forsynet med en jernpig og
jevnt fortyndet mod den spidse ende; den anden
(pl. VIII fig. 15) fra midten jevnt fortyndet mod
begge ender, hvoraf den ene er ganske spids, den
modsatte derimod udvidet til en knop (fig. 15 b);
begge ved fremkomsten vel bevarede og, som teg-
ningen viser, rette, men nu bøjede, tildels brækkede
og meget indsvundne; bestemmelse ubekjendt ;
en udmerket vel arbeidet stok af løvtræ, som det
synes ask (pl. XI fig. 1), forsiret med udskjæringer
og tre slags farve; var aldeles bevaret, da den fand-
tes, og blev dengang aftegnet, men er senere meget
indsvunden; stod i bagskottet i skraa stilling med
hovedet op og støttet mod stavnen; udentvil skibets
rorpind’), da dens tap ved fremkomsten nøjagtig
passede i rorets derfor bestemte aabning (jfr. pl. II
fig. 4);
tæt i styrbordsside mellem gravkammerets agterste
*) Ce. Fowke 1. cit! pl. IV, XLIH
marked later iron age type. The lower part of its
helve is broken.
In the part of the vessel furthest aft between the
sepulchral chamber and the sternpost, were found:
a.
lengthwise, following the middle of the ship, and
about 30 cm. above its sides a spar of fir (pl. IV.
fig. 16), broken towards its thickest end that was
lying close to the wall of the sepulchral chamber,
and regularly tapered towards its other end. It pro-
bably at first rested in the cross beam of the stan-
chion furthest aft (cfr. Pl. I fig. 1) and at a later time
it had been crushed downwards together with the
stanchion, and broken by the pressure of the over-
lying earth. This mast has no doubt been the top-
most part of the ship’s mast, although at its upper
end there is not found any hole to receive the
hoisting rope of the yard, (conf. pag. 20) and besides
regard being had to the thickness of the top of the
lower part of the mast (pl. IV. fig. 15, conf. pl. I. fig. 1),
it must have been somewhat longer; it had a close
and thin cover of cloth belonging to either the sail,
or, perhaps, to the tilt with fragments of bast
cord of varions thickness fastened thereto, and some
of the previously (p. 38) ‘named spindlelike pieces
of wood;
two slender poles of pine wood standing beside each
other, on the aft cross piece of the sepulchral cham-
ber, against its wall; one of the spars (pl. IV. fig. 16)
cut straight at one end, fitted with an iron spike
and evenly tapered towards its sharp end; the other
(pl. VIII. fig. 15) from the middle regularly tapered
toward both ends, one of which is sharply pointed,
whereas the other is broadened to a knob (fig, 15 0);
both of them were at the time of the exhumation
well preserved, and, as the drawings indicate, straight,
but now crooked, partly broken and shrunk together.
Their use is unknown,
a singularly well wrought pole of foliferous wood,
apparently ash (pl. XI. fig. 1) ornamented with grav-
ings and three sorts of colour, well preserved at the
time found and then drawn; since that time it has
shrunk much; stood in the bulkhead in a slant position,
the head upwards leaning up to the stern post and
is surely the tiller‘), for at the time of the exhu-
mation it exactly fitted the orifice in the rudder
fefr: pl H- fø. 4);
d. close in to starboard side between the cross piece
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