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AWLS. SPEARS. DAGGERS. 



used as knives by the Esquimaux women, under the name of 

 Ooloos. It might be convenient to apply this term to the 

 ancient Danish specimens. 



The so-called "awls" are rude pieces of flint, or flakes 

 worked up at one place by a number of small chips to a 

 point (fig. 172). Though not very sharp, they are pretty 



strong. 



FIG. 114. 



jftCfifl 'F^ ! if ' l^" 1 ' 'T 1 -^. 



The spear-heads (fig. 115) are very 

 variable in size and form ; some of 

 them are scarcely distinguishable from 

 large arrow-heads ; others are much 

 larger. Some are so rude that it 

 is questionable whether they were 

 finished, while others are marvellous 

 specimens of ancient art. One in my 

 possession is 12 in. in length, IJin. in 

 breadth, and of wonderfully beautiful 

 workmanship. It is one of six, found 

 together inside a large tumulus in the 

 island of Moen. 



The daggers (pi. 1, fig. 4, and fig. 

 116) are often marvels of skill in flint- 

 chipping. The form so closely re- 

 sembles that of metallic daggers, that 

 some antiquaries are inclined to regard 

 them as copies of bronze daggers, and therefore as not 

 belonging to the Stone Age. The localities in which they 

 have been found do not, however, offer any support to this 

 hypothesis. Another form of flint weapon (fig. 117), which 

 is common in Denmark, has a handle like that of the last 

 form, but instead of a blade, it ends in a point, and suggests 

 the idea that if the tip of the dagger had been accidentally 

 broken off, or the blade rendered narrow by wear and tear, 

 the rest of the weapon might have been worked up into a 



Hollow Chisel. 



