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They are often ascribed to human cremations, but I have never 
yet seen a human tooth amongst any of them, so that they are 
more likely just to have been fires of animal bones and are often 
mixed with wood-charcoal. 
The Torrs are exceedingly rich in worked flints, and there will 
probably be ten times the number (and this applies to other 
antiques as well) yet to find compared with what has been 
already found. The arrow points got here are the triangular, the 
stemmed and barbed, the hollow-based (sometimes lop-sided), the 
leaf, and the lozenge; the last two forms being the most common. 
A few of the arrow-points are very neatly serrated along the edges, 
and as arule they are worked along both sides and edges. Arrow- 
heads—when their points had been broken in hunting or in war— 
were evidently often re-trimmed, at least short and stumpy ones 
are got, which seem to bear out this notion. Scrapers are 
abundant: at one traverse from a small area I got about fifty, 
and one of the old rabbit trappers informed me that he once 
found sixty scrapers built into the form of a cone nine inches 
high. They were mixed with struck-flakes, and a hole must have 
been made for their reception, as a cone of “flints” could not 
possibly have stood till it was naturally covered by blown sand, 
unless, of course, it may have been under the protection of a hut. 
The most common form of scraper is the danguette de chatte, often 
astonishing for its small size, some of this type in Ayrshire being 
much smaller than a finger-nail. Scrapers are peculiar in having 
the bulb of percussion on the under side, that is to say, the 
chipping has taken place on the convex side, and this has given 
them a much sharper edge than had they been trimmed on the 
opposite side, although I have seen an odd one done that way. 
Then come the duck-bill, pointed, spokeshave, and hollow, the 
last apparently used for making arrow-shafts, bone needles, etc. 
Very narrow flints are got which were probably used as teeth for 
hackles, and this suggestion is strengthened by the fact that 
generally a lot of them are got close together as if they had fallen 
out of a fixing, or handle of bone or wood. On Mid Torrs I once 
picked up six lying quite close together, and expected to get more, 
but a sudden change of wind covered the place with sand. Very 
delicately sharp-pointed flints are occasionally got, and have 
probably been used as tatooers or lancets. Borers, drills (both 
