The sword hilt is ornamented with rings of a bronze very poor in tin content, and with figures which originally must have consisted of an alloy of equal parts of copper, lead and tin. The copper-tin-lead alloy is now corroded to an amorphous unmetallic mass. The shield, made of alnus glutinosa, sticky alder, was painted on one side with a red pigment, cinnabar and on the other side with a blue, which was found to be egyptian blue, a crystalline copper-calcium silicate. As the d-values of this substance is not found in the ASTM index, they are published here. Full identity has been proved between the blue pigment in the Bo-find, a similar pigment found by O. Klindt-Jensen on Bornholm and identified by him as egyptian blue, and blue pigment from an egyptian sarcophagus from XXI dynasty from the Ethnographical Museum, University of Oslo.