DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



A. PLATE XIV. 



The blocks of Flint here shown are nuclei or cores, from which flakes have 

 been struck. Some such cores have been figured in A. Plate I. 



Fig. 1. A roughly cylindrical and slightly tapering core, of brownish-grey flint 

 (granular with minute fragmentary fossils). It shows upwards of twelve facets. 

 [The end on which the blows were struck is placed downwards in the figure]. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



Figs. 2 , 2 b. A piece of black-grey flint (full of minute fossils), retaining on two 

 sides some of its original surface, roughly splintered along one edge, and else- 

 where bearing three well-marked facets. [Figured upside down.] 

 From Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 3. A rough piece of dark-grey, granular, fossiliferous flint, retaining parts of 

 two old surfaces (one consisting of the original crust, somewhat water-worn, 

 and the other formed by the face of a subsequent fracture, water-worn and very 

 smooth) ; whilst two sets of intentional fractures have produced, first, seven 

 or eight facets (seen in the figure), and, secondly, a rude splintery surface, 

 truncating the facetted face, at the top of the figure. The different degrees of 

 glaze on the parts successively broken, as well as the interference of the 

 fractures with the former faces, are easily recognized in the specimen. 

 From Laugerie Haute. 



Fig. 4. A rough core of the greyish-brown, granular, fossiliferous flint so common 

 as the material of cores and flakes in the Stations of the Dordogne. It shows 

 six or seven facets on the side figured ; whilst the other is nearly all covered 

 by the original yellowish-grey crust of the flint-nodule. 

 From Laugerie Haute. 



