Over 1,000 spears were found; the handles of most of them were broken off, but five have been preserved complete; these are 8 feet 7⅔ inches long, 9 feet 2 inches long 9 feet long, 11 feet long, and 6½ feet long. The handles are made of ash, and some spears are ornamented with threads of gold, silver or bronze inlaid in concentric circles; sometimes ornaments are traced up the middle of the blade, and originally these also were filled with some kind of metal. [Illustration: Fig. 411.—Crocodile’s head carved in wood. Real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 412.—Brynja, or coat of mail, 3 feet long. ] [Illustration: Fig. 413.—Bone comb with _svastica_. ½ real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 414.—Fragments of checker-board. ⅙ real size. VIMOSE FIND. ] [Illustration: Fig. 415.—Bronze enamelled bowl (1867), 2¾ in. high, 4¾ in. wide, in bog at Maltbœk, Jutland. The enamel in the serpentine line is red. ] _Kragehul Find._—In a small bog called Kragehul, situated near the city of Assens on Fyen, objects have been found which seem to belong to the 4th or 5th century. The first mention of the Kragehul bog is in 1751, when some articles with rune inscriptions were found, which, unfortunately, have been lost, but it was not until 1864 that a regular exploration took place.[163] KRAGEHUL FIND. [Illustration: Fig. 416.—Bundle of bent weapons. ] [Illustration: Fig. 417.—Bronze vessel destroyed by sword cuts. ⅕ real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 418. ] [Illustration: Fig. 419. Iron spears with ornaments carved on the wooden handles. ½ real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 420.—Spear, ½ real size. ] [Illustration: Fig. 421.—Spear, ⅓ real size. ] The antiquities, none of which are of Roman origin, seem to have been thrown in without any order, but spears with thin iron points on the end formed the boundary of the find. In this as in the other bog finds, weapons are twisted together in extraordinary knots and many objects destroyed. _The Nydam Bog Find._—The remarkable bog find at Nydam[164] is extremely valuable on account of the boat, and the discovery of Roman coins enables us to approximate the date of the objects,[165] which is probably about the years 250 and 300 of our era. The Nydam oak boat was discovered in 1863 near Slesvig, in Southern Jutland. Its length is about 75 feet; its widest part, about 10½ feet. It held 14 benches, and was rowed with 28 oars, the average length of which was 12 feet. By its side was the rudder, about 10 feet long. The bottom plank, which is not a keel proper, is 45 feet 3 inches long, and of a single piece. The oar-tholes are fastened to the gunwales with bast ropes, and, though they have all one general shape, there are no two alike. [Illustration: Fig. 422. ]