ON RAINS CAVE, LONGCLIFFE, DERBYSHIRE. 



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distance about midway from the apex to the middle, which could 

 not have been the case had it been a piercing implement. The 

 broad end is only imperfectly chipped into shape. A neat little 

 untrimmed flake (Fig. 6) has its edges still very sharp ; I pointed 

 my pencil with it in making some of the accompanying drawings. 

 A small broken ridge flake has signs of wear ; and another piece 

 of flint is undoubtedly an unfinished implement, broken in the 

 making. A thin flat slaty pebble, oval in shape and about two 

 inches long, is ground along one edge to form a cutting tool or a 

 scraper. The bruised core, the unfinished implement, and the 



Figs. 7 and 8. 



shapeless pieces, point to the manufactue of flint implements in 

 this cave. This is confirmed by a quartzite boulder weighing 

 about 10 oz., which has been used as a hammer. It is bruised at 

 the sub-angles, not, however, on their summits, but on their sides. 

 I cannot conceive of any other use than flint-knapping to cause 

 this. 



All the potsherds of this seam were rude, friable, and hand- 

 made, and in most instances too decayed to stand removal. As 

 a rule, they were dark superficially, and always black within, for 

 which reason the smaller fragments were often passed by for 



