The stone implements of the Scandinavian shell-heaps are a

\ good deal like those of the Drift and the Caves, as regards their

i flint-flakes and leaf-shaped instruments, but they are characterized

I by the frequent occurrence of a kind of celt which is not a Drift

I type. It is rudely shaped from the flint, the natural fracture of

which gives it a curved form which may be roughly compared to

that of a man's front tooth, if it tapered from root to edge. 1

I Here, also, the Unground Stone Age prevails, though a very few

specimens of higher types have been found. I may quote Mr.
Christy's opinion that the thousands of characteristic implements

are to be taken as the standard of what was made and used, while,

as has very often happened in old deposits lying in accessible

situations, a few things may have got in in comparatively modern

times.
