THE GREAT ABUNDANCE OF STONE IMPLEMENTS. 61 



Arrow-heads 171 



Halfmoon shaped implements 205 



Pierced axes and axe-hammers , . . 746 



Flint flakes 300 



Sundries 489 



4840 

 Rough stone implements from the 



Kjokkenmoddings 3678 



Bone implements 171 



Ditto from Kj okkenmoddings 109 



8798 



And if duplicates and broken specimens were counted, he 

 thinks that the number would be between 11,000 and 

 12,000. He has also had the kindness to estimate for me 

 the numbers in private and provincial museums, and, on 

 the whole, he believes we shall be within the mark, if 

 we consider that the Danish museums contain 30,000 stone 

 implements, to which moreover must be added the rich 

 stores at Flensborg and Kiel, as well as the very numer- 

 ous specimens with which the liberality of the Danish 

 archaeologists has enriched other countries; so that there 

 is scarcely any important collection in Europe, which does 

 not possess some illustrations of the Danish stone implements. 

 The museum of the Eoyal Irish Academy includes nearly 

 700 flint flakes, 512 celts, more than 400 arrow-heads, and 

 50 spear-heads, besides 75 "scrapers," and numerous other 

 objects of stone, such as slingstones, hammers, whetstones, 

 querns, grain- crushers, etc. Again, the museum at Stockholm 

 is estimated to contain between 15,000 and 16,000 specimens. 

 The very existence, however, of a Stone age is, or has 

 lately been, denied by some eminent archaeologists. Thus 

 Mr. Wright, the learned Secretary of the Ethnological So- 

 ciety, while admitting that "there may have been a period 



