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Kort agtenfor skibets forstavn laa et lidet øxeblad,
7.7 cm. langt, 1.6 cm. bredt foran skafthullet, med yngre
jernalders form og navnlig fremspringende spidser for at
støtte skaftet, og lidt længer bag 2 spredte stykker rens-
horn, hvoraf det ene viser begyndelsen af tilskjæring.
Endelig var der fra forenden og agterover, et stykke
nedenfor rælingen, lagt en vel bevaret landgang (jfr.
s. 23) af grantræ med fladen i horisontal stilling og tri-
nene op (pl. VI. fig. 17), og hvorved kan merkes, at
planken i den ene ende har en aflang, firkantet aabning
for derigjennem at fæste den til skibet, naar den brugtes,
medens den anden ende da hvilede paa land eller paa
et andet ved siden liggende skib.
Foruden de ovennævnte ting blev der langs skibet
paa begge sider mellem stavnene fundet en mengde
skeletter af heste og hunde, flere af de første med
levninger af hud, haar og hover, dog var der ved de
smaa ben af en hund, som laa tæt under forenden af
den omtalte landgang, hverken kranium eller ryghvirvler.
Ifølge den undersøgelse, som hr. konservator G. A. Guld-
berg har gjort af de indsendte dyreben, antager han, at
der har været mindst 12 heste, unge og gamle, noget
mindre end vore nuværende almindelige heste og efter
al sandsynlighed tilhørende samme race som tjordhestene.
Hvad hundene angaar, maatte der have været mindst
6 individer, hvoraf i det mindste ét var temmelig høj-
benet, medens to andre have været meget smaa og det
ene af disse nærmest har lignet vore mindste skjødehunde.
En merkelighed er det, tilføjer hr. Guldberg, at der paa en
af de hele tibiæ i dens øvre del hænger nogle haar af
graabrun farve, hvilke ligne haarene af almindelige finne-
eller lappehunde, medens benets størrelse nærmest stem-
mer med vore sedvanlige gaardshundes.
Ved et hundeskelet paa bagbordsside fandtes lev-
ningen af et halsbaand af bronse (pl. X. fig. 9), og
ved to saadanne skeletter paa styrbordside laa dels et
lignende halsbaand, men af jern, og dels et lidet stykke af
en spæd jernlænke med S formede led.
Endelig fandtes ved hesteskeletterne paa bagbord-
side 2 smaa krumjern med pig (pl. X. fig. 24), hvoraf
flere lignende tilforn ere fremkomne blandt fund fra yngre
jernalder, men hvis bestemmelse først nylig er bragt til
temmelig sikkerhed (aarsb. 1880, s. 192 noten), hvad
der ogsaa styrkes ved det heromhandlede fund, idet de
nemlig maa have været hovbeslag, dog selvfølgelig kun
for vinterføre, da piggen ellers snart maatte sløves.
aft of the vessel’s forestern, lay a small axe blade,
7.7 cm. long, 1.6 cm. broad before the head, of a form
belonging to the younger iron age, and specially pro-
jecting laps to support the shaft, and a little further
back, distant from each other, pieces of reindeer-horn
one of which has indication of having been begun to be
cut, and finally from the forepart aftwards, a little below
the gunwale lay a well preserved landing stage of
pine wood (conf. p. 23), its surface in a horizontal posi-
tion and the steps upward (pl. V. fig. 17), at which
it may be noted, that the plank had at one end an oblong
quadrangular opening by which when in use it was made
fast to the ship, while its opposite rested on land or on
a ship lying alongside.
In addition to the aforenamed things there was
length-wise of the ship, between the stems, on both sides,
found a number of skeletons of horses and dogs, many
of the first named with remains of hide, and hoofs, but
together with the small bones of a dog, that lay under
the fore end of the just named landing stage, neither
As result of the
examination of these bones made by Mr. Conservator
G. A. Guldberg, he estimates, that there were not
skull nor dorsal vertebra was found.
fewer than 12 horses young and aged rather smaller
than our ordinary horses at present and in all pro-
bability of the same race as the fiord horses. Touching
the hounds there
which one at least must have been tolerably long-
must have been at least six of
legged, while the rest must have been very small, one
of them indeed narrowly resembles our smallest lap dogs.
One thing remarkable, adds Mr. Guldberg, is that some
hairs of greyish brown colour which is like the hair of
ordinary Finnish or Lapland dogs, hang on the upper
portion of one of the perfect tibiae, while the size of the
bone agrees nearly with that of our common house dog.
The remains of a collar of bronze (pl. X. fig. 9) were
discovered close by a dog’s skeleton on the port side,
and by two skeletons lying starboard a similar collar
but of iron and a small fragment of a slender iron
chain with a link of S form. And lastly:
By the horse skeletons on the port side were found
2 small crooked iron pieces with a spike (pl. X. fig. 24)
many similar to which have formerly been found among
relics from the later iron age and the application of which
has only recently been with tolerable certainty ascertained
(Ann. Rep. 1880 pag. 192, note) and the opinion thus
formed, is further corroborated by the discovery now
treated of, in as much as they must have been a kind
of horse-shoes, though self evidently only for the winter
ways, as otherwise the spike must soon have been
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