Fig. 154.—Engraved Slab Tomb, Kivik, Scania.
In the sculptured slab in the tomb of Kivik, in Scania, a pair of horses is drawing a chariot of the rudest construction, on which stands the driver (Fig. 154). In the left-hand upper corner is an armed man with three captives, and at the bottom a row of eight draped figures, with a man in front of them. On another slab in the same tomb these figures are repeated; the armed man is present with his three captives, and a second also with three, and the draped figures are arranged four on each side of what appears to be an altar; while a row of men are represented above, three blowing the large curved horns of bronze, which have been repeatedly found in Scandinavia. In the same tomb boats of the kind figured above, and two crescents with scrolls of late Celtic design, are also represented; and two axes on each side of a cone, of the type figured above (Fig. 148), prove that the whole set belong to the late Bronze age in Scandinavia, or the Iron age of Italy, France, and Britain.
The boats have highly ornamental ends, and are
