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removed from it. Its material is a black and very fine-grained 

 rock, something like black flint in appearance. It seems to 

 have been easy to work, the channels left by the removal of 

 flakes being smooth, and the ridges between them sharply de- 

 fined. Thin edges of the rock are slightly translucent. 



With regard to the two stone implements and to a few 

 rather doubtful specimens. 



One implement, a broadly lanceolate object, that which was 

 found near the human remains, is roughly chipped out of a piece 

 of granite; a large part of the upper side being the originalsmooth 

 and weathered, or water-worn, skin of the rock. This is yellow- 

 ish in colour. The stone has been trimmed to shape by 

 blows delivered on the under edge, the flakes thus splitting from 

 the upper surface. Granite is not particularly suitable for 

 working, being of too coarse a grain, and the flaking is there- 

 fore rough. Some trimming of a similar kind is observable 

 round the edges of the lower surface, but is not so well marked 

 as above. A patch in the centre of this side is also stained 

 yellow and appears" to be the natural skin of the stone, but is 

 rougher than that on the upper surface. 



The other well marked implement is very similar in 

 outline to that just described, but the under surface is flattish, 

 while the upper is turtle-backed. The material from which 

 it is made is a hard and fine-grained black rock, probably 

 metamorphic. An island of the original greyish skin of the 

 pebble is left on the centre of its upper face and forms its 

 highest part. Chipping extends from the edge to the margin 

 of this island. The flakes removed from the under surface 

 were evidently much larger than those from the upper. The 

 rock, though fine-grained, does not seem to have been easy 

 to work. 



We now come to two other specimens which are 

 not so well defined. One of these has been extensively 

 chipped at the edge till the "front'* of it is almost semi- 

 circular. The material of this slab is a fine-grained stone of 

 a dark purple-red colour about seven-tenths of an inch in 

 thickness, which has both faces worn smooth by river action. 

 An edge has been broken away, but whether previous to 

 chipping or not. I cannot say for certain. The other specimen 

 appears to have been intended for an implement of similar 

 outline to the first two described and is probably in an 

 unfinished state. Its material is a dark, fine-grained stone 

 and a portion of the original water-worn skin remains on 

 either face. Chipping is fairly extensive, especially on the 

 upper surface towards the point. Below, flakes have also been 

 removed in numbers, but they do not reach so far-towards the 

 middle. 



About two other objects I am very doubtful. They 

 shew no obvious signs of chipping, and none of grinding, 



