. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 613 stad, and about GOO meters from Yisterflo, one of the branclies of the Glommen River, in the parish of Tune, which has preserved the most remarkable and probably the oldest of Norwegian Runic stones. Over a century ago excavations had been made in the progress of which the existence of the shij) appears to have been determined. Acting on these reports, the owner of the farm, in about 1865, began a search
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 613 stad, and about GOO meters from Yisterflo, one of the branclies of the Glommen River, in the parish of Tune, which has preserved the most remarkable and probably the oldest of Norwegian Runic stones. Over a century ago excavations had been made in the progress of which the existence of the shij) appears to have been determined. Acting on these reports, the owner of the farm, in about 1865, began a search for the ship, and after several ineftectual attempts succeeded in uncovering a part of its inner side. The discovery being reported to the Society for the Preservation of Norwegiiin Antiquities, the proprietor of the farm desisted from further search and allowed the excavation to be made by Pnti". O. Rygh, under tht- direction of the Fij--. 128. 0)NSTHUCTI()\ OB^ TUNE SHIP. ( <:. fiiule. ??The aiiripiit vessel ( -.,1 ; 187-2 ) Owing to the circumstiiiice that the ground covered by the mound had been under cultivation for many years, its original shape had])een modified, and its former si/e could not be correctly estimated; it ap- ])('ars, however, to have been round, about feet high, with a cir- cuuiference of between loO and ;"),")() feet. It is situated on the slope of a hill facing the river. The lowest layer of the mound consisted of a stiff clay, and to this is due the fair state of preservation of those portions of the ship imbed- ded therein; the ujiper layers consisted of other kinds of earth, and all portions of the vessel surrounded by them had been destroyed, not even a trace remaining. It was best preserved in the middle, where the clay had been thickest; the extremities had suffered considerably, and only the very lowest portions of the prows have been preserved. The ])ressure of the heavy mass of earth appear
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