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in the United States.* Danish popular legends refer to these tracks as to 

 real impressions of human feet. Figures resembling wheels with four spokes 

 have repeatedly been found in Denmark on isolated blocks and on stones 

 of megalithic structures, and in one case in connection with cup-cuttings on 

 a rock in the Island of Bornholm. Dr. Petersen's statements render it 

 probable, if not certain, that these wheel-shaped sculptures pertain to the 

 stone age as well as to that of bronze (page 337). 



Sometimes they appear associated with rude designs of ships, the crew 

 of which is indicated by upright straight lines. A group of this kind is 

 seen on the cap- stone of a funeral chamber near Herrestrup, in the North- 

 west of Seeland. According to Professor Simpson (who quotes from Holm- 

 berg), the chamber was entirely concealed within an earthen mound until 

 discovered by treasure-diggers, and hence there is a strong probability that 

 the sculptures are coeval with the chamber. The latter contained some 

 urns, with tools and pieces of flint. The sculptured group consists of three 

 wheel-shaped figures and three very rudely executed manned ships, together 

 with some imperfect linear markings, perhaps not of artificial origin. The 

 figures are so slightly carved that they become very distinct only in a good 

 light.f I -give in Fig. 21 a representation of this structure, copied from 

 Fergusson's "Rude Stone Monuments" (Fig. 106 on page 303). In 1875, 

 Dr. Petersen states (page 33 S), two blocks with similar figures (a wheel, 

 manned vessels, and human figures of the most primitive character) were 

 discovered in the neighborhood of the denuded chamber. The latter has 

 been thought by some to have been erected during the stone age ; but 

 WorsaaeJ as well as Petersen incline to the opinion that Danish sculp- 

 tures among which figures of ships occur, generally belong to the age of 

 bronze. The last-named gentleman takes occasion to draw special atten- 

 tion to analogous designs of ships and other figures engraved on Danish 

 bronze knives (razors?), two of which he represents on page 341. § Mr. 



* Dr. Petersen's illustration bears mucli analogy to Fig. 222 on page 57 of my pubfication entitled 

 "The Aichaeological Collection of the United States National Museum." In both cases the soles of the 

 feet are represented as being covered. 



tSimpson: Archaic Sculptures, etc., ji. 72. 



t Worsaae : The Primeval Antiquities of Denmark; translated by W. J. Thorns; Londou, 1849, p. 91. 



$ For representations of others see Worsaae : Nordiske Oldsager i dot Kougelige Museum i Kjobcu- 

 bavn, Figs. 171-175. 



