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III. As to the Parallel Cuts. With regard to the scoring on our specimen 

 (B. Plate XIII. fig. 13), we have the following remarks to make. 



1. We find some linear transverse notches on the above-mentioned hone Imple- 

 ment (fig. 2, B. Plate XXV.) from the Gorge d'Enfer, which is not without some 

 resemblance to fig. 13 of Plate XIII. It is a flat piece of bone, convex on one face, 

 partly flat and partly concave on the other, rounded at one end, and broken at the 

 other, which is narrower. The margin is smooth and rounded, and marked through- 

 out nearly all its unbroken extent with numerous, small, transverse, parallel nicks, 

 forming a crenulated edge, such as we see in fig. 13 under notice, and much finer 

 than that given to the transversely notched teeth in B. Plate V. figs. 7 and 8. This 

 ornament is lost on the rounded end, possibly from wear. On each face, at the nar- 

 rower portion of this blunt bone blade, are some cross scorings ; but the fracture 

 has interfered with the several series of notches, some of the smaller of which are 

 in pairs. These groups of -marks were evidently intentional; and this specimen, 

 as far as general form, crenulated edge, and scoring are concerned, has an evident 

 relationship with fig. 13 of Plate XIII., and came from the same place. 



2. Many articles made for different purposes, in different countries, have notched 

 edges, whether for use or ornament (see, for instance, fig. 89, page 18, of Worsaae's 

 ' Nordiske Oldsager ' &c., 1859). In the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, Mr. E. T. 

 Stevens has shown us a very handsome, mounted, jade adze marked with notches 

 that are arranged in groups chiefly along the edges ; and Mr. J. Evans, E.S.A., has 

 another, from New Zealand, and a fragment of a stone celt from Burwell Een with 

 numerous parallel incised lines, or scorings, on the two edges of one face. 



Besides the sketch (fig. 65), Colonel Lane Eox has favoured us with sketches of 

 other notched and scored specimens in his collection : 1. A celt-shaped imple- 

 ment of basalt, from Pennsylvania, with a hole drilled from both sides, and eight 

 notches across the small end or butt* (fig. 66). 2. A knife of Walrus-tusk, with 

 irregular notches, possibly for the handle (fig. 67). 3. An oblong, hard, black stone, 

 from Denmark, regularly notched with fine lines at eight places (two places on 

 each of the four edges), with 7, 8, 9 (three times), 10, 11, and 12 notches (fig. 68). 

 Could this, asks Colonel Lane Eox, have been intended for gambling-purposes ? 



3. Of bone implements scored with marks that scarcely seem intended to be 

 ornamental, and may have served originally for numbers, or other private marks, 

 many specimens may be adduced. We may draw attention to a knife-like bone 



* These may possibly have had to do with the fastening of the handle. See also ' Proc. Soc. Antiq.' 

 ser. 2, vol. i. p. 281 (1860) W. Galloway, on an incised ironstone celt from near Edinburgh, with notches, 

 longitudinal and transverse, at the heel for fastening. 



