DOUBLE-POINTED FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 69 



and seventeen net-weights, some of them marked doubtful. A number of these 

 sinkers may not belong to neolithic, but to later, times. There are further 

 enumerated, I will add, a lish-hook of bronze, one of iron, and two or three other 

 objects.* It will be admitted that these few articles formed but an insignificant 

 fraction of the many thousands of antiquities exhibited at Berlin. 



I will now proceed to describe the fishing-implements referred to at the 

 beginning of this section, classifying them according to the use to which they 

 Avere applied. 



Double-pointed straight Bait-holders. — Reference has been made on preceding 

 pages to bone rods tapering towai-d both ends, which were, and still are, used in 

 lieu of fish-hooks. It aj^pears that in neolithic times such simple implements 

 for catching fish were made of flint. I never have seen any of them, and there- 

 fore have to rely on the statements of others. Mr. Friedel alludes to one in the 

 Fishery Department of the Berlin Provincial Museum, of which he is in charge. 

 He says : — " Upon these stone spindles, chipped to a point at each end, and attached 

 in the middle to a line, the bait was fastened, in order to be swallowed entire by 

 the fish intended to be caught."f The specimen in question was found on an 

 island in the river Havel, near Berlin. Several, obtained from the Island of 

 Riigen, in the Baltic Sea, wei'e exhibited by Mr. Rosenberg at Berlin in 1880. 

 He considers them well suited for catching pike.J Mr. Rosenberg speaks of 

 another class of flint implements from Riigen, which present a peculiar form, and 

 served, as he thinks, in the construction of fish-hooks. § I shall revert to them 

 hereafter, when treating of a peculiar class of fish-hooks from Greenland. 



Fish-hooks. — Two entire fish-hooks of flint, preserved in the Museum of 

 Lund, Sweden, are described and figured by Professor Sven JVilsson. I repro- 

 duce on the next page his designs as Pigs. 88 and 89. || The Swedish archae- 

 ologist gives the following account of the sjDecimens : — 



" The first of these (here Fig. 88) was found near Lomma, on the shore of 

 the Sound (Oresund). It is in length, from the middle of the end of the shaft 

 to the bend of the hook, about one inch and five lines, and in breadth, from the 



* Among fish-remains are mentioned those of the pilce from a pile-work on the Roseninsel (Island of Roses) 

 in Lake Starnberg, Bavaria, and of the Wels (Silurus glanls, of the cat-fish family) and pike from Schussenried, in 

 Wurteraberg. 



t Friedel: Fiihrer durch die Fischerei-Abtheilung des Markischen Provinzial-Museums der Stadtgemeinde 

 Berlin; Berlin, 1880; p. 1. 



X Such implements of stone, bone, or bronze are called Spitzangeln in German. 



§ (Voss) ; Katalog der Ausstellung prahistoriseher und anthropologischer Funde Deutschlands zu 



Berlin (August, 1880) ; Berlin, 1880; p. 364. 



II Nilsson: The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia; translated by Sir John Lubbock; London, 1868: 

 Plate II, Figs. 28 and 29.— Fig. 29 is also to be found in "Worsaae's " Danmarks Oldtid oplyst ved Oldsager og 

 Gravhoie;" Copenhagen, 18-i3; p. 16. 



