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and to its × shaped supports, and the pole that
stretched between them parallel to the keel. Two
small boats, one masted, of similar type accompany
the Gokstad ship; they are of 22¼ feet and 14 feet
keel respectively. A cauldron with chain for cooking,
an iron plate for carrying lamp or fire safely, cups,
buckets, a landing plank or bridge, bedstead, an iron
anchor, kettle, platters, and a draught[1] and morris
board with men were found aboard her.
This description will serve fairly for the Nydam
boats [two oak, one fir) of the third century, and the
Tune boat (oak) which is plainly of the fifth, save
that the Nydam boats are none of them masted, and
one of them, the fir one, was probably fitted with a
spur to one end of the keel. The biggest Nydam
boat was of 60 feet keel, 77 feet between stem and
stern, 10⅚ feet beam, and about 3¼ feet depth; she
had a large piece of wickerwork for her bottom boards,
she had five strakes, and was clinker-built. [2]
The Tune ship was of 45½ feet keel, 14½ feet beam,
and about 3 feet depth; of six strakes, clinker-built of
oak, caulked with cow hair and pitch, masted, and side
ruddered.
All these boats, save the Gokstad ship, had the
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