The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nationsDu Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations
Fig. 136.—Fragment of bronze axe, ⅓ real size, with handle of
oak.—Near Eskilstuna, Södermanland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 137.—Axe of thin layer of bronze, ⅙ real size, cast upon a mould
of clay, ornamented with some round plaques of gold, in the midst of
which are pieces of amber.—Södermanland, Sweden.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 138.—Two forms of stone for casting; one for four saws, the other
for two knives. ⅓ real size.—Scania.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 139.—Necklace of bronze. ⅓ real size.—Bog, V.-Götland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 140.—Saw of bronze. ½ real size.—Denmark.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 141.—Bronze ring. Real size.—Denmark.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 142.—One of two bronze bracelets round wrist of skeleton in
tumulus, Dömmestorp, Halland. ⅔ real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 143.—Bronze ring. Real size.—Denmark.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 144.—Bronze bracelet, ½ real size.—Denmark.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 145.—Fibula of bronze. ⅔ real size. Found with a bronze ring in
bog, Zeeland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 146.—Head ornament or hair-ring. Little less than ½ size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 147.—Long spiral bracelet, found near a big stone, Scania.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 148.—Tutulus of bronze, with many other objects, in a large mound
at Bosgården, near Lund, Sweden.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 149.—Bracelet. ½ real size.—Denmark.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 150.—Bracelet of bronze. ⅔ real size.—Scania.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 151.—Diadem of bronze. ½ real size.—Denmark.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 152.—Button of bronze. Real size.—Scania.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 153.—Button found with other objects in a small clay urn, with
burnt bones, surrounded by little slabs; real size.—Dömmestorp,
Halland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 154.—Fibula of bronze. ⅖ real size.—Scania.[117]
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[Illustration:
Fig. 155.—Bronze pin. ⅓ real size.—Bohuslän.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 156.—In a private collection. ⅔ real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 157.—Found in a bog among the contents of a bronze vessel—rings,
pins, knives, etc. ½ real size.—Fyen.
Bronze pins.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 158.—⅔ real size.—Jutland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 159.—In urn with burnt bones. ⅔ real size.—Jutland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 160.—Bracelet of gold. ½ real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 161.—Twisted necklace of bronze, ½ real size, found in a bog at a
depth of 1m. 5c. at Langhö, Södermanland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 162.—Ornament of bronze, ⅛ real size, for wooden pail.—Bog of
Balkåkra, near Ystad, Scania.
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CHAPTER X.
THE IRON AGE.
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