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A. PLATE VIII. 



Ten Implements formed of Flint-flakes, either without any further chipping 

 (fig. 3), or by more or less reduction of the ends and edges. In some, each end 

 has been narrowed to a wedge-point, chiefly by lateral fractures (figs. 5 & 8). In 

 fig. 4 both ends have been symmetrically shaped by chipping. Others have one 

 wedge-like thick end, or tang, probably for insertion in a handle, whilst the other 

 extremity is more or less modified by chipping (figs. 1, 2, 6, 7, 10) sometimes 

 roughly approaching the rounded end of a Scraper, sometimes ending as a blunt 

 blade (fig. 9). Some of the specimens appear to have been either unfinished 

 Scrapers, or old implements much used and broken. There may have been other 

 uses for both the blunt and the pointed ends ; and in some cases the side edges 

 seem to have been fit, if not used, for scraping and cutting, like the blade of a 

 carpenter's " spoke-shave " (fig. 8), or a rough saw (fig. 9). Such flakes, dressed 

 and undressed, as shown -in this Plate, are exceedingly abundant in the Caves. 



Fig. 1. Light-grey, translucent, chalcedonic flint, with Sponge-structure ; slightly 

 glazed. A simple flake; with a sharp wedge-point defined by small lateral 

 fractures. The other end is blunt, bears the " bulb of percussion " on the flat 

 face, and has been somewhat reduced and slightly rounded by chipping. The 

 lateral edges, sharp but jagged, may have been used as saws. 

 Laugerie Basse. 



Fig. 2. Dark-grey opake flint, full of Sponge-spicules ; highly glazed. The flake 

 has been wedge-pointed at one end ; and the other retains a small part of the 

 round solid edge (smoothed by use) of a Scraper, but is otherwise irregular from 

 old fractures. The side edges have been partly chipped, probably by use. 

 Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 3. A long rough flake of dull cream-coloured flint, mottled with yellowish- 

 brown (probably a brownish flint whitened and opake by weathering). The 

 sharp and thin end has been narrowed by the removal of part of one edge by a 

 long lateral fracture; the point was broken off before the weathering took 

 place. Except at the obliquely fractured side of the point, both edges are 

 sharp and minutely jagged. 

 Les Eyzies. 



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