DESCRIPTIONS Of THE PLATES STONE IMPLEMENTS. 79 



A. PLATE XVIII. 



The Implements here figured have been worked out of Flint-flakes, and are 

 more or less glazed and weathered. Pigs. 2, 8, 10, and 11 are such Scrapers as 

 we have already seen in A. Plate VI. &c. (pp. 18 and 21). Pigs. 4, 7, and 9 

 appear to have been Scrapers fitted for shaping small cylindrical implements 

 of bone or wood. Pig. 1 may also have been a two-edged Scraper; fig. 6 an 

 Awl; and fig. 5, possibly unfinished, may have been intended to be either one 

 or the other as circumstances required. 



Pig. 1. A somewhat hook-like, flat implement of mottled, grey, granular flint, 

 discoloured by weathering. The curved part has the shape of the share-bone 

 or coccyx of a Powl. The flake has been carefully reduced by chipping 

 to a solid edge all round; and this is throughout splintered by crush, ex- 

 cepting on the outside of the curved point. What appears at first sight as 

 a but-end may possibly have been a broad rough drill or a two-edged scraper. 

 Les Eyzies. 



Pig. 2. A tanged implement of dark-coloured flint, having one shoulder formed 

 by the wear and tear of rough scraping; and the opposite edge is partly 

 splintered and partly worn. 

 Laugerie Basse. 



Pig. 3. A tanged, broad, blade-like implement of honey-coloured translucent flint. 

 One edge has been dressed straight, and the end oblique by chipping; and 

 these, as well as the other edge, appear to have been used. 

 Laugerie Basse. 



Fig. 4. A dressed piece of dark-grey flint, somewhat like an arrow-head with 

 an oblique but-end set on to it, a notch on either side defining the sagittate 

 portion. This latter has been trimmed to a solid edge on one side and a thin 

 edge on the other, according to the relative thickness of the flake ; its point is 

 perfect and bears no sign of wear. Minute chippings, like those produced by 

 scraping, mark the edges of the oblong part of the implement, and the blunt 

 end is splintered. The notches are rounded, and have probably been used in 

 scraping cylindrical rods, arrow-stems, skewers, pins, &c.; or possibly they 



