464 STRANDLOOPER INSTRUMENTS AND ORNAMENTS. 



thickness 0.15 inch. The carefully-made tang and the well-shaped 

 pointed end are the special features of this specimen. 



The other example (Fig. 1), measuring 2.7 inches by 0.7 inch 

 by 0.25 inch, is similar, except that the tang passes gradually 

 into the body of the implement. The bulb of percussion has been 

 removed, but there is no other retouching on the faces of the 

 implement: the edges are delicately trimmed throughout, above 

 and below. The material has weathered grey. This specimen has 

 a general resemblance to several of the arrowheads recorded from 

 Egypt by Flinders Petrie in his paper "The Stone Age in Egypt"; 

 but other arrowheads, figured on the same page and likewise 

 referred to the Solutrean technique, are much superior to the 

 Cradock specimen. 



Dr. Peringuey also figures several small arrowheads from the 

 Free State, representing a technique decidedly superior to that 

 of the Cradock specimens. One of them, from the Caledon dis- 

 trict, was found "among South African-type pygmy scrapers, ' 

 but these pygmy scrapers are evidently quite different from those 

 found at Wilton, if the specimen figured by Peringuey is a fair 

 sample. 



Associated with the arrowheads at ilalesowen were typical 

 end scrapers. Those lent to me by Mr. James are of superior 

 type, being delicately trimmed, like the arrowheads. They are 

 all rather flat, some long and some short. In addition, there were 

 numerous flakes, several broken kwes, a grooved stone (presumably 

 used for making bodkins), many fragments of pottery, a bone 

 bead, and a pendant of unusual shape, made of ostrich shell. 

 Pendants made from marine shells are not uncommon in the 

 Strandlooper caves of the southern coast, but, unlike this specimen, 

 are usually regularly oval and much longer than broad. The 

 shape of the Halesowen specimen can be seen from the illustration 

 (Fig. 13). The disc measures about 1 3-5th in. by 1 3-7th in., 

 and on the concave inner side is a simple incised decoration 

 throughout the margin. This apparently commenced as a series 

 of short more or less radial lines which were afterwards connected 

 up into a zigzag by lines more obliquely disposed. The upper por- 

 tion of the pendant is missing, the line of fracture passing through 

 a hole that had been pierced therein, and we may surmise that 

 there was originally a pair of holes. 



The immediate interest of this specimen lies in the fact that 

 we have one of similar shape from the Spitzkop rock-shelter (Fig. 

 12). The latter was, however, cut out from some large marine 

 shell, and is quite flat. It has a decoration of incised short lines 

 obliquely cutting the margin of the inner surface, but these 

 lines are not crossed. The specimen measures 33 mm. by 29 mm. 

 A still smaller one, from the same shelter, measuring 21 mm. by 

 18 mm., has a notched decoration around the margin, but is 

 cut out from the shell of some gastropod, and is longer than 

 broad. 



This indication of affinity between the cultures of the 

 aboriginal sites at Cradock and at the Spitzkop cave is supple- 

 mented by one of, perhaps, even greater importance in the 



