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^ localities in which they have been found cio not, how- ever, offer any support to this hypothesis. Another form of flint weapon (fig. 129), which is common in Den- mark, has a handle like that of the last form, but instead of a blade, it ends in a point, and sug- gests the idea that if the tip of the dao;o-er had been accident- ^ ally broken off, or the '^ blade rendered narrow by wear and tear, the rest of the weapon might have been worked up into a poniard, and thus utilized. In both these classes the crimping along the edges of the handle is very curious. The slinz-stones are of 2^^ two kinds. The first are r" "^ merely rough pieces of flint reduced by a few blows of a hammer to a convenient size and form. But for the situations in which they are found, these might almost be re- garded as natural frag- ments. Professor Steen- strup is now disposed to think that many of them were used as sink-stones Fig. 125. — Flint r . u i. ^u i. dagger in the State ^or nets, but that somc Museum, Stock- have really served as sling-stones seems to be indicated by their presence in the Peat-mosses, which it is difficult to account for in any other way. The other kind of sling-stones are round, flattish flint disks, some of which are beautifully made. The oval tool-stones (fig. 130), or " Tilhuggersteens " of the northern antiquaries, are oval or egg-shaped stones, Fig. 126. — Flint dagger in the State Museum, Stockholm.