4. Stone Implements. 



(Figs. II to 16, pag. 381.) 



luv. Amd. 21 (Fig. 11) is a finely polislied piece of light- 

 gray clay-slate, triangular, with convex faces, and two slightly 

 curved edges. It was found in a kitchen-midden outside the 

 ruins of a house in Skaergaardshalvö. It is 3'2 cm at its greatest 

 length, but is merely the fragment of a larger, probably elong- 

 ated blade. The sharp pointed end might lead one to suppose 

 that it is the blade of a weapon head, but the objection to this 

 is that one of the edges is cut sharp, while the other is blunt 

 or broad like the back of a womans knife (w/o); weapon heads 

 are generally two-edged and are cut alike on both faces. One 

 of the faces of this specimen has traces of an oblique ridge, 

 or what is possibly the edge of a ground facet; the edge line 

 fades away towards the part which has been broken off. 



The specimen has no perforated hole, which fact, however, 

 does not militate against the supposition that it might be the 

 end of a woman's knife, as the holes in a knife of this kind, 

 or at any rate one of them, may well be situated 3 cm within 

 the end of the blade (cf. inv. Amd. 23). It is also possible 

 that it is to be reckoned as the stone-blade of a 'crooked 

 knife" (Murdoch)') a specimen of which was found in Scoresby 

 Sund by Ryder ^). 



Whate\er kind of cutting or boring implement this speci- 

 men is a part of, it is remarkable to notice the care with 



>) Mordoch I, 157. 



*) Ryder 322, fig. 21 d; cf. Solberg 60. 



