. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC ART. 535 was transmitted to Kiug Christian VI, wlio gave to tlie peasant 2(H) rigsdalers. Description of the horn found in 1G.')9 (fig. 174): Its length was 34 inches; at the bell mouth its circumference was 12i inches, and the diameter 4^ inches; at the small end, which, however, had no mouth- piece, its circumference was 4^ inches, and its diameter 1^ inches. Its weight was G pounds 0.} ounces. Its manufacture was complicated,
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC ART. 535 was transmitted to Kiug Christian VI, wlio gave to tlie peasant 2(H) rigsdalers. Description of the horn found in 1G.')9 (fig. 174): Its length was 34 inches; at the bell mouth its circumference was 12i inches, and the diameter 4^ inches; at the small end, which, however, had no mouth- piece, its circumference was 4^ inches, and its diameter 1^ inches. Its weight was G pounds 0.} ounces. Its manufacture was complicated, somewhat difiticult to describe in detail, and, perhaps, unimportant from the view point of a musical instrument. It was made of thick sheet gold; whether hammered or cast does not appear. It was double throughout, one sheet forming the interior, which was solid, smooth, and l^olished; whether made in a single sheet or by a succession of sheets soldered together is not now known. The interior sheet of gold was less pure than the exterior. The exterior plate was made iu bands or sections, as shown by flg. 170, thirteen regular ones and a small one at the bell mouth. These bands graduated in size and length from the large to the small end of the horn. The six smallest bands were. Fiii. 175. OOLDEN HORN, FRAGMENT. Weigiit, 7 poimilH 5:^ ounces. Found 1734 at Galleliuus, Denmark. soldered to the interior sheet so as to form a solid piece. The other seven bands were different. While the bands at the smaller end may have been made separate and afterwards soldered together, the junction being covered by the solid ring, as shown in the figure, it is certain that the seven larger bands were made separate, for they were not soldered together, but inserted one into the other continuously after the fashion of a stovepipe, tlie junction being crimped so as to prevent their separation, yet permitting them to be rotated one upon the other. These junctions were then covered by separate gold r
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