330 ABSENCE OF POLISHED IMPLEMENTS. 



and apparently intended to be held in the hand, while the 

 other has a cutting edge, produced by a number of small blows. 

 Some of these instruments are of large size, and they are 

 supposed by MM. Christy and Lartet to have been used for 

 cutting wood, and perhaps also the large bones of mammalia. 

 Another very interesting type is figured on p. 329 (figs. 182-4). 

 This specimen is worked on both sides, but more frequently 

 one of them is left flat. MM. Christy and Lartet regard this 

 type as identical with the "lance-head" implements found iii 

 the drift. I cannot altogether agree with them in this com- 

 parison. Not only are the Le Moustier specimens smaller, but 

 the workmanship is different, being much less bold. Moreover, 

 the flat surface (fig. 182 A) is no individual peculiarity. It is 

 very frequently, not to say generally, present, and occurs also 

 on the similar implement found by Mr. Boyd Dawkins in the 

 hyaena-den at Wokey Hole, and figured by him in the Geo- 

 logical Journal, May, 1862, No. 70, p. 119. This very inte- 

 resting type seems rather to be derived from the " cutters " 

 above described, in which case its resemblance to the drift 

 forms would be accidental and insignificant. MM. Christy 

 and Lartet, indeed, call the implements of this type " lance- 

 heads ;" but it may well be doubted whether they were in- 

 tended for use in this manner, though there are specimens at 

 Le Moustier which have all the appearance of having been 

 intended for this purpose. On the whole, then, although these 

 Le Moustier types are of great interest, we must pause before 

 we regard them as belonging to the drift forms. No polished 

 implements have yet been found in any of these caverns. 



The station at Moustier has not as yet produced any im- 

 plements made of bone, but a good many have been obtained 

 from the other caves. " They consist of square chisel-shaped 

 implements ; round, sharply-pointed, awl-like tools, some of 

 which also may have served as the spike of a fish hook ; har- 

 poon-shaped lance-heads; plain or barbed arrow-heads with 



