FLINT-FINDS. Ill 



Professor Steenstrup and I gathered in about an hour at 

 Froelund, near Korsb'r, 141 flakes, 84 weights, 5 axes, 1 scraper, 

 and about 150 flint chips ; while at a similar spot, near Aarhuus 

 in Jutland, I myself picked up, in two hours and a half, 76 

 weights, 40 flakes, 39 scrapers, 17 awls, and a considerable 

 number of flint chips. 



In the sheltered and shallow fjords of Denmark the sea 

 is generally calm, and, in many instances, a layer of sand 

 has accumulated over and thus protected the flint fragments. 

 This was the case with both the above-mentioned coast-finds, 

 one of which was exposed in draining the land, the other in 

 a railway cutting. Sometimes a change of currents will remove 

 the light sand, and leave the heavier stones, which again in 

 other cases have lain apparently undisturbed and exposed from 

 the first ; and in such instances the spots are sometimes so 

 thickly strewn with white flints that they may be distinguished 

 by their colour, even at a considerable distance. 



Of course, in a sea like that which surrounds our coast, 

 such remains would soon be reduced to mere gravel ; besides 

 which, we must remember that on our Southern and Eastern 

 shores, even in historical times, the sea has encroached 

 greatly. " Flint-finds," however, resembling in many respects 

 these Danish " coast-finds," are not unknown in this country, 

 or on the Continent. They appear to indicate the position 

 of ancient villages ; and in some cases, as, for instance, those 

 of Grimes' Graves and Pressigny, are evidently places selected 

 for the manufacture of stone implements on account of the 

 good quality of the flint. 



Nor are these discoveries confined to Europe. Mr. Busk 

 and Mr. Langham Dale have met with a very similar assem- 

 blage of fla,kes, etc., on the Cape Flats, at the Cape of Good 

 Hope.* Throughout the whole of America, Australia, and 

 Polynesia, indeed, stone implements were in use down to a 



* Trans. Ethn. Soc. 1869, p. 51. 



