KELIQULE AQT7ITAKECLE. 



A. PLATE VI. 



This Plate represents twelve instruments of Flint, all of which have heen 

 thought to have one end prepared for fastening in a stick or shaft. It is not, 

 however, always easy to decide which was really the fixed end ; for, though some 

 of these specimens may have been lance-heads, many hear evidence of use on one 

 or both edges of what seems at first sight the but end, whilst the blade-like and 

 unused portion is still quite sharp at the point and edges. 



In fig. 3 the but is boldly and nearly equally notched on either side ; and in 

 fig. 10, though broken, it seems to have been symmetrically chipped to a tapering 

 flattish point, like that of the other extremity of the specimen. In figs. 8 and 12 

 also both ends of the instrument have been pointed; but one end is more 

 contracted than the other, having been much reduced at the edges. In all the 

 others one end has been narrowed (with or without tapering) by the removal of a 

 large portion of one edge. Whether this was done for insertion in a handle, or 

 whether the diminution in width was not rather the result of wear, are questions 

 not easily determined. In some instances it seems probable that the part of the 

 flake which still retains its sharp edges has been protected by insertion in a handle, 

 while the other part has been used for cutting, or rather for scraping : see figs. 1 

 and 2, p. 21. The care with which many of them have been chipped (not well 

 shown by the figures) has given them a character approximating to that of the 

 " Scandinavian " type, also alluded to in the description of A. PI. IV. 



All figured in this Plate are from Laugerie Haute ; but the same forms occur 

 also elsewhere in considerable numbers. 



Fig. 1. Light-brown flint, weathered grey. Long, narrow ; one-third lanceolate ; 

 the rest semicylindrical. This has been a part of a flake dressed at one end by 

 chipping into a plano-convex tapering shape ; at the other it is narrower, tapering, 

 and subquadrate in section. There are clear evidences of wear on both edges of 

 the semicylindrical portion, which hence seems to have been reduced in width 

 by having been used as a Scraper, chiefly on one side, whilst the blade-like 

 portion (figured uppermost) was fixed in a haft. 



Fig. 2. Greyish-brown flint, weathered. A flake but little modified. One half 

 has been narrowed by rough usage, perhaps as a Scraper, on one edge, and 

 roughly pointed by chipping at the end. At the other end also the flake has 



