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manufacture being that the brow ridge had been jagged off. Next 

 this was the remains of a tool manufactured from the top end of 

 an antler ; in this an attempt had been made to sever it by cutting, 

 but it had been abandoned, possibly a mark of impatient snapping. 

 The handle in this specimen was much worn, but it was difficult to 

 determine whether it had been intended for a pick or a driU; 

 perhaps both, more probably the latter, as it was unusual to find 

 the picks made from the cup end. Then there were the tines, 

 which, broken off as they were to enable them to use the pick more 

 comfortably, became in themselves useful implements. An 

 example of their use occurred in cave 6, for, in the entrance, there 

 was a block of chalk partly detached, and the hole bored evidently 

 by a tine, to prize the block down, was still apparent. 



In the pit opened by Mr Tyndall in January, a horn was 

 found with all the tines broken off, and a hole in the thickest part 

 for the insertion of a celt ; this form, common enough among pre- 

 historic nations, having been found in the Swiss lake dwellings, 

 and elsewhere, did not occur in his pit, though at 15ft. they found 

 a very perfectly fashioned celt, which might have been from one of 

 these tools, the handle being broken. Associated with these picks 

 were the fragments of five scapulae, for the identification of which 

 as bos longifrons and pig, he was indebted to the kindness of 

 Professor Flower, F.R.S., of the College of Surgeons. Their 

 occurrence with the picks, and the absence of any other bones, was 

 most singular, and he had suggested that they might have been 

 shovels, which idea was favoured by the scratchings on them, and 

 by the fact that in three cases out of the four the large anterior 

 spine had been cut down ; they were very remarkable, and we had 

 good reason for believing that these bones had not before been 

 found under the same conditions, and evidently for these uses. 

 He could hardly apply the same remarks to the smaller one, 

 though its occurrence alone was curious. 



The next things which claimed attention were the flint imple- 

 ments, and if they were in any way inferior in importance to the 

 bones in point of rarity, they made up this deficiency by their 

 abundance. Colonel Fox, in the second of the exhaustive and 

 admirable papers on the Sussex Hill forts, entered into a long 

 dissertation on the Cissbury implements, and divided them into 

 about 15 different types, which were massed into two groups, and 



