FROM THE SHELL-MOUNDS. 



187 



(figs. 126-128). With these occur other forms, which, though 

 very rude, are evidently artificial, such as fig. 129, which 



FIG. 129. 



llude Flint Implement. 



appears to have been a kind of axe, and others of which the 

 sharp edges were evidently used for cutting purposes. 



In the two days which we spent at Meilgaard, we found 

 the following objects : 



" Shell-mound" axes 19 



Flint flakes 139 



Bone pins, etc 6 



Hornjs 6 



Pottery, only 4 pieces 



Stone hammer. 1 



Slingstones, about ... 20 



195 



Of the three " pillars" of material, just alluded to (p. 180), 

 the first contained seven flint flakes, two axes, one worked 

 piece of horn, three worked pieces of bone, and some pottery ; 

 in the second were sixteen flint flakes, one axe, and seven 

 slingstones; in the third, four flint flakes, two flint axes, 

 and a pointed bone. In short, without appearing to be 

 richer than other Kjokkenmoddings, Meilgaard and Havelse 

 have each produced already more than a thousand of these 

 rude relics, though but a small portion of the mound has 

 in either case been hitherto removed. We need not, there- 



