80 PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



" Heretofoi'e these implements bad not been met with among the relics of 

 the stone age within the limits of ancient Poland. It therefore affords me much 

 pleasure to announce the discovery of two specimens of the implements under 

 notice, found in the district of Orszan, on the bank of the small river Uswiata, 

 which empties into the left shore of the Dniepr. At the time of this discovery 

 the land drained by the Uswiata was the property of the learned Dr. Zeckert, 

 now deceased. 



" Both heads are made of ox-horn, and very well preserved, though dis- 

 colored by the action of time. One is almost black, the other yellowish-brown. 

 Our illustrations show the objects reduced to two-thirds of their actual size. 

 Length of one, twenty-four centimeters ; of the other, twenty-three centimeters. 

 They are at present in the collection of antiquities at Mala vvie^, near Groice." 



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Fig. 105. — Boue harpoon-head. Victoria Cave. 



A bone harpoon-head of peculiar shape, represented in Fig. 105, was dis- 

 covered in the neolithic stratun^ of the Victoria Cave, near Settle, Yorkshire, 

 England. " The harpoon," says Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, " is a little more 

 than three inches long, with the head armed with two barbs on each side, and 

 the base presenting a mode of securing attachment to the handle, which has not 

 liefore been discovered in Britain. Instead of a mere projection to catch the 

 ligatures by which it was bound to the shaft, there is a well-cut barb on either 

 side, pointing in a contrary direction to those which form the head. Ample use 

 for such an instrument would be found in Malham tarn, some three miles off, 

 and very probably also in that which formerly existed close by at Attermire, 

 but which has been choked up by peat, and is now turned into grass-land by 

 drainage."* 



Having alluded to the javelins in use as hunting-implements among the 

 Kurile Islanders and the G-reenlanders, Professor Nilsson describes a class of 

 North European armatures considered by him as javelin-points, giving on Plate 

 VI of his work several illustrations, of which I reproduce Figs. 124, 125, and 

 126 as Figs. 106, 107, and 108 on page 82. 



* Dawkins: Cave Hunting ; p. HI. 



