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VIKING SHIP
British Museum Acquisition
-A DRAGON-LIKE MONSTER
Part of a Danish ship of the 9th century, described as the most im-
In the open market, there were posing Viking antiquity outside Scandinavia, was acquired by the
isolated cases of business done at 1/1-11/16 for cash, 1/13% for March, and 1/1-1/2 was also done for April, British Museum when it was sub- although there are always buyers at mitted to the Trustees at their this rate.
Imonthly meeting. Carved in oak, No business is reported to have it represents the head of a monster, been done in U.S. dollars in the part of either the stem post or stern open market.
post of the ship.
BUYERS
An official of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department of
At the close there were isolated the Museum said. “It is the only buyer at the forgoing rates, with large size monster head carved eni more buyers of Sterling at 1/1-3/4 of a ship of that period, and if, for cash, 1/1-11/16 for March 2nd as believed, it is Danish, it is the 1/1-9/16 for April.
largest surviving fragment of the There were buyers for American type of craft that attacked England dollars at 28-1/2 for cash, and the Lowlands in the ninth 28-5/16 for March and 28 flat for century.” April-Beuter.
COAST DEFENCE HANDICAPPED
Restrictions On Gun Practice
As it was found in the River Scheldt in Belgium, where many Danish raids are known to have occurred, the ship may actually have been on its way to a raid on Can- terbury or London when it came to grief.
A Garden Ornament
Gun-fire restrictions at coast. de-
It was dredged up some years fence stations are seriously handiago by an engineer, who thought it capping the training of personnel of such striking design that he in the Heavy Brigades, Royal Arti-used it as a decoration for his gar- lery, and Territorial Army.
den. With it he found fragments:
Since the war Territorial Army of ship timber which he discarded. units have accepted the undivided Afterwards it was recognised by responsibility of manning the de-archeologists as the only surviving fences This duty does not, appar-specimen of the roomorphic figure ently, carry with it freedom of op-heads and sterposts of Viking portunity for training at gun sta- boats.
tions, if there is danger of disturb
ing a resident's rest.
The carving is likely to become
Coast defence armaments belong the subject of some controversy to the heavy type of artillery the represents a large beaked bea 9.2in. and the 6-m. The shock of an eye and wicke discharge at close range is con- surmounting a long siderable. "But" as a Territorialed with
officer observed, “guns are not fired gian
by day or night merely to amuse Northern
the gunners and to annoy residents.
"We are preparing, by traming
to meet such a contingency as the be Hartlepools experienced when, in on December, 1914, they were bomb ters kno arded by three German battle- cruisers,” he continued. “There is still an artificiality about some of Museum Cour defensive measures - which the lought not to be tolerated."
It was
and from Since:
apwork
Experts
Coast defence is essentially matter of drill as opposed to man- so that the oeuvre. Fized defences cannot be will be sho moved from place to place as the the next few days
ments of the civilian popa- will be temporarily lation dictate.