BONE IMPLEMENTS. 



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Bone and horn implements are rarely found, owing no doubt, 

 in some measure, to their being liable to decay. I have only met 

 with them in the shape of a hammer, made from the lower part of 

 a red-deer's antler [fig. 33] ; what may have been a pick for ex- 



Fig. 15. 



Fig. 14. 



Fig. 16. 



cavating the chalk or a hoe for breaking up the ground, also made 

 of a red-deer's antler l [fig. 34] ; a knife or scraping instrument 

 formed out of a split and sharpened boar's tusk ; two articles 



1 This horn implement was found in a grave hollowed out of the chalk rock near 

 Rudstone, and as it is identical in shape, and in the signs of wear at the end of the 

 tine, with several which had been used as picks for excavating the chalk in the flint 

 workings at Grime's Graves in Norfolk, it is probable that one of the purposes it had 

 served was to make the grave in which it was found. There is however, besides the 

 bruising at the end of the tine, so much smoothening upon the whole length of it, 

 especially on the under side, as to give the impression that it must have been used 

 amongst some softer material than chalk, and if so, possibly in tilling the ground. 



