SPEAR-HEADS. DAGGERS. 



Fio, 87. 



Fio. 86. 



name of Ooloos. It might be convenient to apply this 

 term to the ancient Danish specimens. 



The so-called "awls" are rude pieces of flint, or flakes 

 worked up at one place by a number of small chips to a 

 point (fig. 125). Though not very sharp, they are pretty 

 strong. 



The spear-heads (fig. 86) are very vari- 

 able in size and form ; some of them are 

 scarcely distinguishable from 

 large arrow-heads ; others are 

 much larger. Some are so 

 rude that it is questionable 

 whether they were finished, 

 while others are marvellous 

 specimens of ancient art. One 

 in my possession is 12in. in 

 length, l^in. in breadth, and 

 of wonderfully beautiful work- 

 manship. It is one of six, 

 found together inside a large &,!, 

 tumulus in the island offe 

 Moen. 



The daggers (pi. 1, fig. 4, 

 and fig. 87) are also marvels 

 of skill in flint - chipping. 

 Their form so closely resem- 

 bles that of metallic daggers, 

 that some antiquaries are in- 

 clined to regard them as 

 copies of bronze daggers, and 

 therefore as not belonging to 



the Stone age. The localities Spearhead Daggen 



in which they have been found 

 do not, however, offer any support to this hypothesis* 



