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used ill the work of extracting the flint nodules. At Bran- 

 chjii Httle cups of chalk have been discovered, which, Avlien 

 filled with grease and supplied with a wick, were probably 

 the lamps used by the prehistoric miners in these subter- 

 ranean workings. 



The implements made at these factories, appear to have 

 been very seldom polished on the spot, that part of the work 

 being left to the purchasers ; this is pretty evident, the 

 polished specim.ens found are very few and far between, and 

 are also often merely broken tools, at such great manufric- 

 turing centres as Spiennes or Cisbury. A yet earlier factory, 

 which is thought to have been a centre of distribution during 

 part of the Palasolithic age, as well as during the Neolithic, 

 is found at Grand Pressigny in France. From this locality, 

 not only implements, but the unworked flints themselves 

 appear to have been exported far and wide, as tools and 

 weapons made of the peculiar flint of Pressigny have been 

 found in far distant places, not only in France, but also in 

 Belgium, and doubtless an extensive trade in flint imple- 

 ments as well as in other articles was carried on throughout 

 the Neolithic period all over Europe. 



In Denmark several factories of implements have been 

 discovered, one of these was on an elevation or islet in the 

 Vestermosen Bog in Laaland, this bog was in ancient times 

 a lake, and on the islet were found an enormous number of 

 flint implements similar to those met Avith in the Kjokken- 

 moddings, flakes or knife-like forms and awls, scrapers and 

 saws, more than one thousand arrow-heads, and hammers, 

 also a great quantity of waste chips. The hearths and the 

 broken bones of animals left by the makers of the imple- 

 ments, as well as worked stags' antlers, and bone tools and 

 needles, also some remains of ottery, were found in the 

 same locality. 



In other places, implements of a still higher type have 

 been found, thus in the Island of Anholt in the Kattegat, 

 flint crescents, and triangular lance heads occurred. In the 

 wood of Bakkebolle Fredskov near Vordingborg, a factory 

 of polished implements was met with as well as of others. 



]\Iany of the finest of the Neolithic flint implements have 

 been obtained from the tumuli of Denmark, in which, beside 

 the remains of the dead, weapons of flint, most marvellously 

 made, have been found, similar ones have also been dis- 

 covered in some of the bogs, magnificent lance heads, and 

 daggers of q^uadrangular eection and zigzagged edges, which 



