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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XVI.
upon by the common people as having formed part and
parcel of the cabalistic appendages of the necromancer
of the middle ages. .
The materials employed for making the various
implements of war and of household use are flint and granite :
articles of the latter material are more rare than those
of the former: bone is also met with, as well as amber;
and pottery, of a rude nature, but graceful in form,
adorned with simple ornamentation.
The sepulchral chambers of this period are found to
contain the skeletons of the dead, with earthen vessels,
ornaments of amber, spear-heads, and other articles in
stone, placed around. It was not until a later date that
the practice of burning the bodies of the dead came into
vogue.
In the first room as you enter the Museum are the
utensils of stone in an unfinished state — wedges,
hatchets, knives, arrow-heads, together with the
whetstones upon which they were fashioned. A quantity of
these were discovered in a mass in the island of Anholt.
The second chamber contains a large collection of
hatchets of all sizes and dimensions, supposed to have
been used for the felling of trees—in form that of a
wedge, such as we now use, but broader ; some, with no
regular end, are supposed to have been fastened to a
handle of wood; others are bored with round holes,
pierced either through the centre or the narrow end of
the axe. In the cabinet of the first division are many
specimens in which the hole is merely commenced, or
the place marked out, previous to handing it over to the
workman. Others have been broken in the process of
boring, and are marked for a second trial. Of chisels
there are tw’o varieties, some being square and narrow,
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