354 DRIFT IMPLEMENTS NEVER GROUND. 



Evans regards these* as having served as spear or lance heads. 

 He treats as a mere variety of this type those implements in 

 which the cutting end is rounded off but not pointed. Some 

 of these, however, were evidently intended to be held in the 

 hand, and probably served a different purpose ; they may, I 

 think, fairly be considered as a fourth type, though it must 

 be confessed that all these types run very much into one 

 another, and in any large collection many intermediate forms 

 may be found. The smaller end is, in all cases, the one 

 adapted for cutting, while the reverse is almost invariably the 

 case in the oval celts of the Neolithic Stone Age (figs. 97 

 and 98). 



Again, the flint implements of the drift are never polished 

 or ground, but are always left rough. Many thousands have 

 now been found in the drift gravels of England and France, 

 and of this large number there is not one which shows a 

 trace of polishing or grinding ; while we know that the reverse 

 was almost always the case with the celts of the later Stone 

 period. It is true that the latter is not an invariable rule ; 

 thus, in Denmark there are two forms of so-called "axes" 

 which are left rough namely, the small triangular axes or 

 the Kjokkenmoddings (figs. 108 110) which are invariably 

 so, and the large square-sided axes with which this is often 

 the case. But, though rough, these two forms of implements 

 resemble in no other way those which are found in the drift, 

 and could not for a moment be mistaken for them. It is not 

 going too far to say, that there is not a single well-authen- 

 ticated instance of a "celt" being found in the drift, or of 

 an implement of the drift type being discovered either in 

 a tumulus, or associated with remains of the later Stone 

 Age. 



It is useless to speculate upon the use made of these rude 

 yet venerable weapons. Almost as well might we ask, to 



* l.c. 1860, p. 11. 



