BY WALTER R. HARPER. 427 



never utilised in the same manner as No. 4, has nevertheless 

 suffered a good deal of hard usage, and on one side shows slight 

 signs of wear, caused possibly by rubbing along some hard surface. 

 When found it was in three pieces, and the foot is, as usual, 

 damaged. 



The weight is 41bs. IHozs. 



iSTo. 6 (PI. XVII. fig. 1) is in the Australian Museum, Sydney, 

 and was found between Trundle and the Lachlan River in the 

 County of Ashburnham, N.S.W. This and the succeeding speci- 

 men are composed of an impure clay, and in this differ from the 

 others, but in their shape, their concave bases, and the character 

 of their markings they are analogous to them. It is 24-8 cm. in 

 height, and the greatest circumference is 28 cm. The base is 

 slightly concave, and marked across by a number of well-defined 

 and clearly cut ridges radiating from a common centre. By 

 oxidation a slight red colouring has spread over the " stone " 

 since the marks were put on, but a scratch will remove this and 

 disclose the almost white composition underneath. The markings 

 are similar to those on the preceding specimens, Ijut the " broad- 

 arrows " are badly cut, and in some cases (this may be intentional) 

 the barbs have been continued so as to intersect and form a cross 

 at the end of the shaft. Occasionally only one of the barbs has 

 been continued, and elsewhere the marks I have styled " incom- 

 plete arrows " appear. To take one view of the stone — that 

 shown in the photograph — at tlie top there is an incision passing 

 about half-way round; below this is a badly executed arrow, and 

 then follow three more arrows (the last of which has the " cross- 

 barbs " referred to above), one directly underneatli the other, and 

 each pointing towards the base. Parallel to this line of arrows, 

 and on one side, is ranged a series of short deep horizontal cuts, 

 and on the other side more arrows similarly arranged to the first 

 series. This "stone," as usual, is chipped at the foot, and 

 although the rather sharp ridges on the base show practically no 

 signs of hard usage it is evident that the foot of the object was 

 thus damaged before it was lost or cast aside, since the fractured 



