KELIQTJI^E AQTIITANIC^E. 



A. PLATE XVII. 



Four cutting or chopping, hatchet-like Implements of Flint (with the usual 

 "glaze") from the Cave of Le Moustier. Two are remarkable as being of the 

 same type as many found in the old gravel of the Somme, also in England and 

 elsewhere. A more ovate instrument of this kind has been already figured from 

 Le Moustier in A. PL III. fig. 2. The other two somewhat approach in shape 

 those from Le Moustier already figured in A. Plate V. (see p. 17), and, like 

 them, could have been conveniently used when held in the hand. These and 

 similar implements, common at Le Moustier, and very rare elsewhere in the 

 Caves of Dordogne, are referred to in the memoir entitled " Cavernes du 

 Perigord," by MM. E. Lartet and H. Christy, in the 'Revue Archeologique,' 

 1864, pp. 238 &c. 



Fig. 1. An ovately triangular, sharp-pointed implement, of a compressed pear- 

 shape, boldly chipped out of coarse, mottled, greyish-drab, granular, opake 

 flint, with an undulated cutting edge all round. This closely resembles some 

 of the so-called " hatchets " from Amiens and Abbeville. 



Figs 2 a, 26. A subtriangular, sharp-pointed implement, chipped out of dark- 

 grey flint, that retains some of the outer crust on one face. The but-end is 

 blunt, so that the " hatchet " can stand on end, as is the case with many from 

 St. Acheul. Fig. 2 a shows one of the faces ; fig. 2 b is an edge-view. 



Fig. 3. A broken flake of water-worn dark brown-grey flint, retaining some of its 

 brown crust, neatly chipped on one margin into a sharp semicircular edge like 

 that of an axe, and well adapted for splitting and cutting. 



Fig. 4. A smaller axe-edged piece of a dark-coloured flint-flake, with a portion 

 of its original crust. The cutting edge is not so semicircular as that of the 

 preceding specimen, nor so neatly chipped. 



