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lower border of the pebble, are about one millimetre deep, and have also been 

 cut with a flint-point. 



At a is a kind of marking of fine striae diverging in different directions. It 

 is evident that the pebble has there also been modified by Man's work. At first 

 I supposed that we had here the marks of rubbing produced in sharpening some 

 instrument; but on further consideration I have thought that perhaps the 

 removal of some of the stone, to balance the pebble when hung, the hole not 

 having been bored exactly coincident with the centre of gravity, may account 

 for the abrasion. 



"We were at first content to figure one side only of this pebble ; but several 

 persons having believed that on the other and rather flatter side they could 

 recognize a rough sketch of an animal form, traced in shallow lines, we have 

 reproduced this side also in the accompanying figure. Here also we have 

 further occasion to draw attention to this specimen ; for the two oblique lines 

 are repeated on this face, cut to the same depth, but with more divergence. 

 This repetition of the marks, or sign, on the two faces may have had some 

 conventional meaning; and it may suggest to some of our readers the 

 idea of a talisman, or raise some altogether different claim to a symbolic 

 meaning. As for the obscure sketch outline of an animal, we do not try 

 to interpret it; every one is free to decide about it according to his own 

 impression. 



This specimen was found at La Madelaine. 



Fig. 4. 



Perforated Pebble, with, oblique grooves and rude outline of an animal. 

 [The opposite side is shown in B. PI. V. fig. 1.] 



Pig. 2. The Canine Tooth of a Wolf, pierced near the end of its root. The hole 

 does not seem to have been made with a regular drill, but rather by a pointed 

 and cutting flint instrument, used first on one side of the tooth and then on 

 the other, alternately, until the two holes met in one at the centre. 

 Prom Laugerie Basse. 



