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Upon Tablets 8 to 1 1, and 13 h, are flint cores, flakes, and im- 
plements, from a shell-mound at Meilgaard. This shell-mound 
is one of the largest and most interesting hitherto discovered ; 
it is situated in a beautiful beech forest, called *'Aigt," or 
Aglskov," on the property of M. Olsen, not far from the 
sea-coast, near Grenaa, in north-east Jutland. The mound 
is about ten feet thick in the middle, from which, however, it 
slopes away in all directions ; round the principal mound are 
several smaller mounds of the same nature. Over the shells a thin 
layer of mould has formed itself on which the trees grow. The 
entire thickness of the mound consists of shells; oysters being, at 
Meilgaard, by far the most numerous, with here and there a few 
bones, and still more rarely stone implements, or fragments of 
pottery. Excepting just at the top and bottom, the mass is 
quite unmixed with sand and gravel ; and, in fact, contains 
nothing but what has been, in some way or other, subservient to 
the use of man. 
The specimens on Tablets 9 ^, 10, and 11, are small trian- 
gular " axes," which are very characteristic of the coast-finds and 
the kjokkenmoddings. They are flat on one side, and more or 
less convex on the other ; rudely triangular or quadrangular in 
shape, with the cutting edge at the broader end, and from z\ 
inches to 5 J inches in length, with a breadth of \\ inches to 2| 
inches. They are never ground, and the cutting edge, though not 
sharp, is very strong, as it is formed by a plane, meeting the flat 
side at a very obtuse angle. Professor Steenstrup doubts whether 
these curious and peculiar implements were ever intended for axes ; 
he regards them as having been used as sinkers," and figures 
somewhat similar objects which are applied to this purpose by 
the Esquimaux. The so-called edge, in his opinion, neither 
has, nor could have, been used for cutting. Sir John Lubbock 
rather inclines to the belief that they really are " axes," and he 
figures a kjokkenmodding axe and a special form of New Zea- 
land adze, side by side, in support of his opinion. A cast of this 
New Zealand adze is shown in Case A 53, No. 14. The original 
is in the British Museum ; it was brought from New Zealand by 
the Rev. R. Taylor ; the edge of this specimen, unlike that of 
the kjokkenmodding axes, is produced by rubbing. 
Upon Tablet 12 is a kjokkenmodding flint axe. Nilsson 
figures one of these implements and describes it, provisionally, 
as an ice-chisel from the Baltic coast." 
Mr. Flower, of Croydon, has recently found a flint implement 
on the surface, near Thetford, which closely resembles this 
