ABSENCE OF POLISHED FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 243 



Stone hammer 1 



Slingstones, about 20 



195 



Of the three "pillars" of material just alluded to (p. 236), 

 the first contained seven flint flakes, two axes, one worked 

 piece of horn, three worked pieces of bone, and some pottery ; 

 in the second were sixteen flint flakes, one axe, and seven 

 slingstones ; in the third, four flint flakes, two flint axes, and 

 a pointed bone. In short, without appearing to be richer 

 than other Kjokkenmoddings, Meilgaard and Havelse have 

 each produced already more than a thousand of these rude 

 relics, though biC a small portion of the mound has in either 

 case been hitherto removed. We need not, therefore, wonder 

 at the number of axes found in the valley of the Somme, 

 where so much larger a mass of material has been examined. 



None of the large polished axes have yet been found in 

 the Kjokkenmoddings ; but a fragment of one which was 

 discovered at Havelse, and which had been worked up into a 

 scraper, shows that they were not altogether unknown. A 

 very few carefully formed weapons have been found, but the 

 implements generally are very rude, and of the same types 

 as those which have been already described as characteristic 

 of the " Coast-finds." Small pieces of very coarse pottery 

 have also been discovered, and many of the bones from the 

 Kjokkenmoddings bear evident marks of a sharp instrument ; 

 several of the pieces found by us were in this condition, and 

 had been fashioned into rude pins. 



The observations of Arctic travellers prove that even if 

 human bones had been found in the shell-mounds, this would 

 not of itself be any evidence of cannibalism ; but the absence 

 of such remains satisfactorily shows that the primitive popu- 

 lation of the North were free from this practice. On the other 

 hand, the tumuli have supplied us with numerous skeletons 



