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a peat bog at Nydam in Schleswig, by M. Engelhardt^[1] in 1862, along with iron arms and implements, and in association with Roman coins ranging in date from A.D. 67 to A.D. 217. It therefore may be assigned to the third century. It was made of oaken boards, and was seventy feet long by eight or nine wide. The same kind of boat is also mentioned by Tacitus^[2] as being used by the Suiones, with stem and stern alike, fitted for being drawn up on the beach and without sails. It is, however, clear from his description that this was not the form usually employed in the navigation of the North Sea, and he had in his mind ships with a prow and stern wholly unlike one another.

Fig. 165.—Boat engraved on rock, Häggeby, Uplande.

1. Guide Illustré du Musée des Antiquités du Nord à Copenhague, 2^me ed., p. 25. See also Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, p. 8.
2. Germania, c. 43.