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ENGELHARDT, Director of the Museum at Flensburg, and already so well known to Archeologists from his interesting descriptions of Antiquities found in the peat-mosses at Thorsbjerg and Nydam, has lately found at the latter place, close to the spot where the other discoveries had been made, a ship, or rather a large flat-bottomed boat, seventy feet in length, three feet deep in the middle and eight or nine feet wide. The sides are of oak-boards overlapping one another and fastened together by iron bolts. On the inner side of each board are several projections, which are not separate pieces of wood, but are continuous with the boards, and were therefore left when the latter were cut out of the solid timber. Each of these projections has two small holes, through which ropes, made of the inner bark of trees, were passed in order to fasten the sides of the boat to the ribs. The rowlocks are formed by a projecting horn of wood, under which is an orifice, so that a rope fastened to the horn and passing through the orifice, leaves a hole through which the oar plays. There appear to have been about fifty pairs of oars, of which sixteen have already been discovered. The bottom of the boat was covered by matting. I visited the spot about a week after the boat had been discovered, but was unable to see much of it, as it had been taken to pieces and the boards, &c. were covered over with straw and peat, that they might dry slowly. In this manner M. Engelhardt hopes that they will perhaps, at least in part, retain their original shape. The freight of the boat consisted of iron axes, including a socketed celt with its handle, swords, lances, knives, brooches, whetstones, wooden vessels, with, oddly enough, two birch brooms, and many smaller articles. Only those however have yet been found which remained actually in the boat, and as in sinking it turned partly over on its side, no doubt many more articles will reward the farther explorations which M. Engelhardt proposes to make next summer. It is evident that this interesting boat was sunk on purpose, because there is a square hole about six inches in diameter, hewn out of the bottom, and it is probable, that in some time of panic or danger the objects contained in it were hidden by their owner, who was never able to recover them. Even in recent times of disturbance, as for instance in the beginning of this century and in 1848, many arms, ornaments, household utensils, &c. were so effectually hidden in the lakes and peat-mosses, that they could never be found again. Much interest is added to this vessel and its contents by the fact that we can fix almost their exact date. The boat lies, as I have already mentioned, within a few yards of the spot where the previous discoveries at Nydam were made, and as all the arms and ornaments exactly correspond, there can be little doubt that they belong to the same period. Now the previous collection included nearly 50 Roman coins ranging in date from A. D. 67 to 217. Those found at Thorsberg in the same locality, and which are about as numerous, began with Nero and went down to the year 197. Under these circumstances we may ascribe this vessel and its contents to the third century, without fear of any great inaccuracy; Finally it may be mentioned that there are indications of a second boat lying close to the first. M. Engelhardt proposes to continue his researches next year, and we doubt not that he will discover many more objects of great interest. J. L. |