FLINT IMPLEMENTS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT. 103 
in diameter were met with, in many places filled up with drifted sand, and 
surrounded by masses of excavated material neatly arranged round them, 
as shown in the two illustrations on page 104. Their depth does not seem 
to have been great, nor do the flint-workers appear to have driven lateral 
galleries from the shafts. Most of the mines had a central work-place, round 
which the excavated material was heaped, and where most of the implements 
were found. 
Examples of the whole of the different forms of implements above described 
were not found in every mine. Round all those lying to the east and south- 
east of Mr. Seton-Karr’s collecting Camp II. of 1896—which is between 30 

View or Swarts oN THE Leven TErRACE-TABLELAND, NEAR CAMP XI., 1896; SHowryne 
THE ExcavateD MarertaAL Hearep Rounp THE CENTRAL’ WorK-PLACE. 
(From a Photograph by Mr. Seton-Karr.) 
and 40 miles east of the Nile—(see the map facing page 77) there were found 
only rough flakes with a cutting edge and very rude cores, in association 
with hammer stones of rude and shapeless lumps of flint. In descending 
the Wady, at the next halting-place, Camp I. of 1896, near a mine on 
the right bank, there were found more shapely wedge or shoe-like cores 
(as in Fig. 42), surrounded by fine flakes and in company with clod- 
breakers or “truncheons,” which, in being without handle or knob, I take to 
be in an unfinished state. Lower down, at Camp. III. of 1896, occurred at 
workings on the right bank only, both rough and fine flakes in large numbers, 
“truncheons,” knobbed (Fig. 37) and unknobbed, also sickle-shaped knives 
(Figs. 21, 22, 25, and 29) and broad, thin double-pointed, leaf-shaped daggers 
