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III. LISTS OE THE PLATES. 



A. STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



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PLATE I. These are blocks of Flint from which narrow flakes have been struck off, by a succession of 

 carefully directed blows ; so that the piece remaining bears several narrow facets, and may be 

 regarded as the Nucleus or Core from which numerous blade-like pieces have been knocked off . . i 



PLATE II. A series of flakes of Flint, mostly of small size ; some few have been tanged or otherwise 

 dressed. See Note, at page 26 3 



PLATE III. Two Flint Implements, of lanceolate form, one retaining the flake-face, and the other 

 chipped all over. From Le Moustier 6 



PLATE IV. Lanceolate Flint "Weapons, carefully shaped by repeated chippings into a flattish, acute- 

 ovate form, with pointed ends and somewhat sharp edges. They are all from Laugerie Haute. 

 The resemblance between these neatly made flint implements and some found in Denmark is 

 very remarkable ; hence these much chipped and symmetrical forms are sometimes spoken of 

 as belonging to the " Scandinavian Type " 7 



PLATE V. The specimens here figured belong to a type of Implements specially adapted for being held 

 in the hand by the thick and naturally rounded margin ; whilst the opposite margin, reduced to a 

 sharp curved edge by careful chipping, can be used in chopping. From Le Moustier 17 



PLATE VI. This Plate represents twelve Instruments of Flint, which have been thought to have one 

 end prepared for fastening in a stick or shaft ; but, while some may be regarded as Lance-heads, 

 others were probably Lateral Scrapers, with sharpened butt (figured upside down) 1 8 



PLATE VII. A Series of Flint Implements, somewhat spatulate in form, having one end nearly semi- 

 circular, the other tapering, and the sides more or less parallel. They have all been formed of 

 flakes ; and the ends, and sometimes one or both of the sides, have been chipped. One end has 

 been rounded by a series of small fractures perpendicular to the flat or inner face of the flake ; 

 and a curved solid terminal edge has been thus formed, such as we find in certain Stone Imple- 

 ments that the Esquimaux at present use in scraping and dressing skins 22 



PLATE VIII. Ten Implements formed of Flint flakes, either without any further chipping, or by more 



or less reduction of the ends and edges 27 



PLATE IX. Two large, simple, untrimmed Flakes of Flint, from the Gorge d'Enfer. These almost 

 strigil-shaped Flakes have been struck off blocks of flint like those figured in A. Plates I. and 

 XIV., a flake at a blow 34. 



PLATE X. Six implements of worked Flint, from the Gorge d'Eufer, of which four have one end 

 chipped into the semicircular or elliptical solid edge of a Scraper, and two. have both ends so 

 prepared , r 



PLATE XI. Four lanceolate specimens. Fig. 4 is merely a flake, with no modification of its edges. 



Figs. 1, 2, and 3 also were flakes, but have been dressed and used 3 j 



