DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES STONE IMPLEMENTS. 35 



A. PLATE X. 



Six implements of worked Flint, of which four have one end chipped into the 

 semicircular or elliptical solid edge of a Scraper (see p. 22), and two have both 

 ends so prepared. Four of these implements have, more or less distinctly, marks 

 of use on the rounded end ; and of these the two largest have had their side edges 

 used also. One (fig. 5) looks like a Scraper with one end narrowed for fastening 

 in a handle : but its round edge is intact ; and the seeming tang has been reduced 

 by its two edges having been used in scraping. Another specimen (fig. 6), rounded 

 at its two ends, has been worn only on its two lateral edges by use as a Scraper 

 or " spoke-shave." Hence the rounded ends have in some cases been prepared 

 merely for neatness or for convenience of holding, and not necessarily as scraping- 

 edges. All these specimens are from the Gorge d'Enfer (page 4), and are more or 

 less glazed. 



Fig. 1. A portion of a large, regular, slightly curved flake of opake yellowish flint, 

 striped with white and brown along one edge, where part of the original light- 

 brown crust remains. Carefully rounded (like the Scrapers of A. PL VII.) at one 

 end, which is slightly worn by use ; truncate at the other. The thin edge (right- 

 hand in the figure) has been minutely chipped by use throughout its length. 



Fig. 2. This also has been prepared from a large flint-flake, opake, purplish grey 

 along the middle, and banded with white and faint yellow along the sides. 

 Obliquely rounded at one end. Evidences of use appear on the two side edges 

 and along the rounded end. 



Fig. 3. Part of a thick flake ; rounded at one end, truncate at the other. Opake 

 and yellowish, but whiter under the dark-brown irony crust which remains on 

 the outer surface. As with figs. 1 and 2, and many other specimens, this flint 

 was once a Polyzoan limestone. The elliptically curved end and the sides have 

 been boldly chipped into shape ; and the edge, especially at the shoulders of the 

 curve, has been worn by use. 



Fig. 4. A Scraper of mottled grey flint, with large Sponge-spicules, Polyzoa, &c., 

 irregularly rounded at one end and roughly tapered at the other. This has been 

 chipped out of an old flake, the weathered, shining, and iron-stained surface of 



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