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PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



is drilled from both sides. This specimen (No. 4991. A) was obtained at the 

 Saint- Aubin station. The original of Fig. 73 (No. 4991. B) is a somewhat flat- 



FiG. 72. 



Fio. 73. 



Figs. 72 and 73. — Stone sinkers (?). Saint-Aubin. 



tish oval pebble of compact gray sandstone (molasse) , with a central perforation 

 sunk from both sides, and of bi-conical form. It was likewise found at Saint-Aubin. 



Fig. 71.— Saint-Aubin. Fig. 75.— Xidau-Steinberg. 



Figs. 74-76.— Sinkers (?) of stone and clay. 



Fig. 76.— Inliwyl. 



There are in the Peabody Museum smaller pebbles, perforated, but not in the 

 centre, which are almost too light to have served as net-sinkers, but which may 

 have been used in connection with fishing-lines, if they were not designed for other 

 purposes. One of them (No. 4991. G), found at Saint-Aubin, is here represen- 

 ted as Fig. 74. It is a small water-worn stone of pale-gray color and calcareous 

 character, pierced with a straight cylindrical hole. 



In Fig. 75 I represent one of the clay cones to which reference was made.* 



* Keller: Lake Dwellings; Vol. II, Plate SXXVIII, Fig. 16. 



