18 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Stellenbosch TvpE.^It is in the valleys of the Eevste, Berg, 

 Breede, Oliphants, and sundry rivers and their affluents in the Cape 

 Colony that some of the best finished implements of that type have 

 been discovered hitherto. 



Made of quartzite varying in closeness of texture (Table Mountain 

 sandstone), but the grain of which, however crystalline the sand- 

 stone may be, precludes the possibility of their ever acquiring a fine 

 polish, they are of a type so numerously illustrated in all the South 

 African districts of the Cape Colony and also beyond (Cape, Stellen- 

 bosch, Paarl, Worcester, Tulbagh, Ceres, Clanwilliam, Malmesbury, 

 Piquetberg, Caledon, Mossel Bay, Knysna, Port Elizabeth) that they 

 may well be ranked under the name,"'- " Stellenbosch type." 



They are all broadly flaked either on one face or both ; the edges 

 are sharp, but very sinuous, and often continued round the butt, but 

 they often also retain there the rounded original pebble shape ; 

 they show no distinct secondary trimming except faint traces at the 

 point ; none are rectilinear in profile. 



Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 32 represent the best finished tongue-shaped, 

 Stellenbosch-type implements ; they are chipped on both faces, but 

 the trimming of one side does not correspond with that of the other. 



Very variable indeed in shape and size are the artificially worked 

 stones of that type. The crudeness and imperfection of some of 

 them contrast singularly with that of Figs. 1, 2, 3, &c. ; they are 

 no longer tongue-shaped or amygdaloidal (see Figs. 12, 13, 14, 15). 

 The butt is shaped into a rough point, as in Figs. 12 or 15 ; both ends 

 may be reduced almost equally to a sharp point (Fig. 14), or one of 

 the points into a broad wedge (Fig. 13) ; the apices are thus variable 

 in form. But whatever the shape be, crude or finished, the median, 

 always sharp, ridge of the two faces as shown in the absolute profile 

 of the bouchers does never correspond. 



Next to, and found together with, the highly finished implements 

 comparable, except in size, with the best Acheulean (Figs. 1, 2,- 3, 

 20, 32), is Hamy's " hache a talon" (Figs. 5, 6, 7,8), in which a 

 part of the water-worn, rounded quartzite boulder has been retained 

 more for convenience than through accident. 



This retention of the contour of the boulder, or of part of it, is of 

 very frequent occurrence in the Stellenbosch — more so than in any 

 of the other types I have seen (Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 29) ; it is extremely 

 pi-onounced in Figs. 25 and 26. 



* I have seen an implement of that type alleged to have been found in Natal. 

 It is in the G. Leith Collection, now in the Pretoria Museum. I know of similar 

 ones from East London, as well as from Swaziland. 



