Note 40 — Chapter IV · THE EARLY SHIPS OF NORTHERN EUROPE.

Du Chaillu (“The Viking Age,” vide supra) attributes these ship-form graves to the Iron Age, and remarks that similar monuments have been found in England and Scotland. “One of the most interesting,” he adds, “is that where the rowers’ seats are marked, and even a stone placed in the position of the mast” (p. 309, vol. i.). This is reproduced in Fig. 27.