PREHISTORIC KITCHEN-MIDDENS. 1PArG 
times to have been an arm of the sea which subsequently 
became a fresh-water lake, but is now entirely dried up. 
One of the largest and earliest explored is that at Meil- 
gaard, situated in a beautiful beech forest, between which 
and the sea (some 2 miles distant) there are now high 
dunes of drifting sand. It measures 340 feet in length 
and 120 feet in breadth, with a maximum depth of 10 feet. 
The most common industrial remains hitherto found on 
these sites consist of roughly chipped flint implements— 
hatchets, flakes, scrapers, and some angularly chipped nodules 
(supposed to have been used as slingstones); also a few 
pointed implements of bone and horn. Only one or two 
stations have yielded objects which point to an overlap 
into a more advanced civilisation. In the collection of 
Kjokkenmoédding objects in the Museum in Copenhagen, 
I noticed a polished axe and a worked dagger from Havno 
on the Mariager-fiord; and from Havelse there is a flint 
scraper, evidently made from a portion of a polished celt. 
Among the relics from Meilgaard are three small combs 
with short handles made of bone, which remind one of 
the long-handled combs found in Hunsbury Camp and in 
the Glastonbury lake-village (both late-Celtic stations), 
as well as in some of the Scottish brochs; stout portions 
of stag’s horn, some perforated, appear to have been used 
as hammers or axes; and a few fragments of rude pottery 
and pointed implements of bone. As indications of hearths, 
there are some round stones of granite or sandstone showing 
marks of fire. 
The following animals were identified as having their 
remains more or less represented :— 
1. Shell-fish—The most common were oyster, cockle, 
and mussel. A few other species were also collected. 
2. Fish.—Herring, cod, eel, and flounder or dab. 
3. Birds.—Kagle, cormorant, mew, wild duck, and goose 
(most common); also swan, capercailzie (Tetrao wrogallus), 
and great auk (Alcea impennis). 
4, Mammalia.—Stag, roe, and wild boar (most common) ; 
also urus (Bos primigenius), dog, fox, wolf, marten, hedge- 
hog, otter, seal, porpoise, water-rat, mouse, beaver, wild. 
cat, lynx, and bear (Ursus aretos). 
