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lected, ticketed, and deposited in the Museum at Copenhagen, 

 and the general results have been embodied in six Eeports 

 presented to the Academy of Sciences at Copenhagen.* 



It is from these reports, and from the excellent Memoir 

 by M. Morlot, that the following information has prin- 

 cipally been derived. Being, however, anxious to pre- 

 sent to my readers a complete and accurate account of 

 these interesting shell-mounds, I have twice visited Den- 

 mark ; first in 1861, with Professor Busk, and again in the 

 summer of 1863. On both these occasions, through the 

 kindness of Professor Thomsen and Herr K. Herbst every 

 facility has been afforded me of examining the large collec- 

 tions made in different Kjokkenmoddings, in addition to 

 which I had the great advantage of visiting several of the 

 shell-mounds under the guidance of Professor Steenstrup 

 himself one, namely, at Havelse in 1861, and those at 

 Meilgaard and Fannerup in 1863. 



Mr. Busk and I also visited by ourselves one at Bilidt, 

 on the Isefjord, close to Fredericksund, but this is one of the 

 places at which it would seem that the inhabitants cooked 

 their dinners actually on the shore itself, so that the shells 

 and bones are much mixed up with sand and gravel ; and 

 we were not very successful in the search for flint imple- 

 ments. At Havelse, on the contrary, the settlement was on 

 rather higher ground, and though close to the shore, quite 

 beyond the reach of the waves ; the shells and bones are 

 therefore almost unmixed with extraneous substances. At 

 this place the Kjokkenmodding is of small extent, and is 

 in the form of an irregular ring, enclosing a space on 

 which the ancient dwelling or dwellings probably stood. 

 In other cases, where the deposit is of greater extent, as 



* Untersogelser i geologisk-antiqua- also has published an excellent abstract 

 risk Retning af G. Forchhammer, J. of the Reports in the Mem. de la So- 

 Steenstrup, og J. "Worsaae. M. Morlot ciete Vaudoise, T. yi. 186p. 



