IMPLEMENTS BEARING SIGNIFICANT MARKS. 



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Lee's Translation, pi. 14. fig. 22. Others have been met with in England 

 (Heathery -Burn Cave; see 'Proc. Soc. Antiq.' ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 130, fig. 1); and, 

 through the courtesy of J. H. Lamprey, Esq., Librarian of the Royal Geographical 

 Society of London, we have seen several from Ireland, rather narrower and thinner, 

 some with and some without holes near the end for suspension. Scorings perpen- 

 dicular to the edge, whether accidental or inten- 

 tionally made, are visible on some of these Irish and 

 English specimens. See fig.* 69, page 188. 



II. As to the Marginal Notching. We know 

 of no specimen like this one from the Gorge d'Enfer, 

 combining the knife-like shape, the marginal crenu- 

 lation, the scoring on the sides, and the pitting on 

 the faces. 



A more spatulate and blade-like bone implement 

 from the Gorge d'Enfer (fig. 2, B. Plate XXV.) bears 

 a notched or crenulated edge and some superficial 

 scorings. 



A symmetrical and perforated blade-like piece of 

 ivory (Woodcut, fig. 64), with an iron ring, forming 

 part of an Amulet*, used by the Djibba Negroes of 

 Central Africa, though more neatly elongate-ovate, 

 closely corresponds in shape with fig. 13, of B. Plate 

 XIII., except that the broken narrow end in fig. 13 

 is replaced by a perforated apex in the modern spe- 

 cimen ; and instead of the notched base of fig. 13, we 

 have in the other a broken projection. The margin 

 of the African specimen is neatly notched all round ; 

 but the notching is coarser than the partial crenu- 

 lation of the edges in fig. 13 of B. Plate XIII. The 

 African specimen bears neither pits nor scoring; 

 nor can we offer any remarks on its original shape 

 and use before its narrow projecting portion was 

 broken off, if ever, indeed, it was more complete than at present, or if ever intended 

 for any thing else than an article of Eetish. We get from this, therefore, little to 



* Consisting of some cowries, leg-bones of a small reptile, a large seed-vessel, and this ivory plate, all 

 strung on a leathern thong. 



