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Implement, not dissimilar to some from Switzerland and elsewhere (see above, 

 page 185), that was found in the Heathery-Burn Cave, near Stanhope, in the 

 County of Durham, which bears a scoring, or groups of notches, on the edges, as 

 observed by A. "W. Pranks, Esq., E.S.A. (fig. 69). At one edge there is a set of 



two short parallel notches perpendicular to the 

 margin, and another of three, close by ; and these 

 appear on one face only. The other edge has two 

 series of similar notches (eleven and thirteen) con- 

 tinued on the two faces of the blade. The specimen 

 is 8 inches long by 1^ broad, and about ^ thick. 

 There is a figure of a specimen like this, reduced in 

 size, and without markings, accompanying an ac- 

 count of the Heathery-Burn Cave* and its contents, 

 in the ' Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries,' 

 ser. 2. vol. ii. p. 130. 



4. The Rev. W. Greenwell, F.S.A., has observed 

 groups of three, five, and seven notches or lines, of 

 unequal lengths, perpendicular to the edge, on one of 

 the perforated implements made of Red-deer Antler, 

 from Heathery-Burn Cave, and not uncommon in 

 England and Switzerland, which have been regarded 

 as analogous to Shuttles &c., such as those figured in 

 Keller's 'Lake-dwellings' (Lee's Translation), pl.37. 

 figs. 11 & 13 ; pi. 41. fig. 9 ; and pi. 62. fig. 27. 



5. The marginal scoring on a knife-like bone implement from Ireland has been 

 alluded to above, page 185. 



6. Marginal scoring, or groups of small notches perpendicular to the edge, we 

 have also seen on two edges of a fragment of a flattish bone stem, subtriangular 

 in section (a Dart-head, perhaps, or rather a Tally-stick), from the rock-shelter of 

 La Madelaine, Dordogne (fig. 3, B. Plate XXV.). Here there are two perfect 

 groups of four notches on one edge and part of another, and an imperfect series 

 of eleven, at somewhat irregular distances, on another f. 



* This Cave is also described in the 'Geologist' for 1862, pages 34 and 167; and some of the Human 

 Remains found in it are described and figured in the same volume. 



t Specimens of implements made of antler, and so notched or scored as probably to have served as 

 Tallies, have been collected by MM. G. & P. Parrot, in the Grotte de PEglise, Commune d'Excideuil 

 (Dordogne), and are preserved in the Museum at St. Germain. 



