250 ANTIQUITY OF THE SHELL-MOUNDS. 



be likely to abound in the Kjokkenmoddings, any more than 

 works of art or objects of value in modern dust-heaps ; still 

 I confess I should have expected that fragments of these 

 instruments, recognizable to us, though useless to their original 

 owners, would have been more numerous than, in reality, they 

 appear to be. 



In addition to the five hundred rude implements described 

 by Prof. Worsaae as having been found at Meilgaard during 

 the king's visit, I myself obtained a hundred and forty flint 

 flakes, with about fifty other implements, in the visit to this 

 celebrated locality which I made last year under the guidance 

 of Prof. Steenstrup. To these, again, must be added many 

 which had previously been collected by M. Olsen, and the 

 members of the Kjokkenmodding Committee ; and yet among 

 so large a number of instruments of various kinds there is 

 only one which in any respect resembles the well -worked 

 implements of the tumuli. So, again, at Havelse only a single 

 fragment of a polished axe has been found among more than 

 a thousand objects of the ruder kind. It might, however, 

 fairly be urged that in such a comparison neither the flakes 

 nor " slingstones " ought to be brought into consideration in 

 this case; and if we were to count the axes only, the numbers 

 would be greatly diminished. 



Moreover, the alleged absence of rude implements in the 

 Stone Age barrows has been satisfactorily explained by Pro- 

 fessor Steenstrup. In this country it might be argued, from 

 the statements of so intelligent an antiquary as Sir R. Colt 

 Hoare, that rude implements were never, or very rarely, found 

 in tumuli ; but the more recent researches of Mr. Bateman, 

 Mr. Greenwell, and other archaeologists, have shown that this 

 is very far from being the case, and have made it evident that 

 the ruder implements of stone were overlooked by the earlier 

 archaeologists. In the tumuli examined by Mr. Bateman, he 

 obtained many flint flakes, etc., quite as rude as those which 



