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trench two metres wide and about eleven metres in length ; this 

 section was being removed carefully, a single cubic metre at a time. 

 Every bone, potsherd, flint, or other relic as it was removed was 



Fig. 10. Saw. Flint. 



Fig. 11. Axe. Stone. 



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at once labeled, and a complete record regarding it entered in a 

 note-book. The commoner shells at this locality were species of 

 the genera Ostrea, Cardium, Littorina, Nassa, Tapes, and Mytilus. 

 Bones of various birds, mammals, and fish were rather common. 

 The day we were there two diggers removed about three cubic 

 metres of material, and the yield of relics was four rude flint 

 axes, one fishhook, and some bits of pottery. 

 The upper level area of the terrace proper is 

 sprinkled with flakes, knives, and hatchets of 

 flint, plain evidence of an old village site. 



The later neolithic of Denmark presents a 

 magnificent development. Flint of the finest 

 quality is found everywhere. In no part of the 

 world did its chipping attain greater perfection. 

 Material for other implements of stone was not 

 rare, and was fully utilized. The consequence 

 is that throughout the country beautiful relics 

 of the later stone age are found ; they lie on the 

 surface ; they are dug up in plowing and in ex- 

 cavations of all kinds ; they are picked out by 

 peat cutters ; they are discovered in tumuli or 

 old graves. Lubbock says: "Many of these 

 barrows, indeed, contain in themselves a small 

 collection of antiquities, and the whole country 

 may even be considered as a museum on a great 

 scale. The peat bogs, which occupy so large an 

 area, may almost be said to swarm with antiqui- 

 ties, and Prof. Steenstrup estimates that, on an 

 average, every column of peat three feet square 

 contains some specimen of ancient workman- 

 ship." 



This part of the stone age was marked by 

 the curious habit of erecting great monuments 

 of stone and earth dolmens, giant chambers, 

 etc. Such monuments are sometimes called Flint. 



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