80 THE GREAT ABUNDANCE OF STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



Arrow-heads 171 



Half-moon shaped implements . . . 205 



Pierced axes and axe-hammers . . . 746 



Flint flakes 300 



Sundries 489 



4840 

 Rough stone implements from the Kjok- 



kenmb'ddings 3678 



Bone implements 171 



Ditto from Kjokkenmoddings . . . . 109 



8798 



These figures refer to the year 1864, and if duplicates and 

 broken specimens were counted, M. Herbst thinks that the 

 number would have been between 11,000 and 12,000. He 

 has also had the kindness to estimate for me the numbers in 

 private and provincial museums, and, on the whole, he believes 

 we shall be within the mark if we consider that the Danish 

 museums contain 30,000 stone implements, to which, more- 

 over, must be added the rich stores then at Flensborg and 

 Kiel, as well as the very numerous specimens with which the 

 liberality of Danish archaeologists has enriched other countries, 

 for there is scarcely any important collection in Europe which 

 does not possess some illustrations of the Danish stone imple- 

 ments. 



The museum of the Royal Irish Academy includes nearly 

 700 flint flakes, 512 celts, more than 400 arrow-heads, and 

 50 spear-heads, besides 75 "scrapers," and numerous other 

 objects of stone, such as slingstones, hammers, whetstones, 

 querns, grain-crushers, etc. Again, the museum at Stockholm 

 is estimated to contain between 15,000 and 16,000 specimens. 



In addition to those cases in which large numbers of stone 

 implements have been found on spots which were evidently 



