g KELIQUI^: AQCTTANIOE. 



were made for ornament, or to help in tying the tool to the handle in which 

 the sharp unworn end may have been fixed. 

 Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 5. A dressed piece of a flat flake of yellowish-grey opake flint, straight 

 on one margin and elliptically curved on the other ; it has a sharp beak-like 

 point at one end, whilst the other is thick and blunt, retaining the natural 

 crust of the flint. There is no distinct evidence of wear on the point or 

 edges ; and possibly it was intended to have the point worked out as in fig. 6, 

 or the thick end reduced as in fig. 1. 

 Les Eyzies. 



Tig. 6. A dressed piece of a flake of yellowish, opake, granular flint, retaining 

 some of the original crust*. The margin has been chipped into shape, and 

 one end of the implement has been worked into an oblique point, about 

 one-fifth the length of the specimen, which would serve as a rough awl 

 or drill. 

 Les Eyzies. 



Eig. 7. A dressed piece of a flat flake of mottled, grey, granular flint (with 

 Polyzoa, &c.). Straight on one edge, curved on the other, and terminating 

 at one end in a sharp point, this piece is somewhat knife-like, and has been 

 trimmed to a solid edge all round, except that two opposite rounded notches 

 break the outline at what may seem at first sight to be the but. These 

 notches appear to have been used in scraping cylindrical sticks and rods, 

 and are probably the most important feature in the implement, the rest of 

 it being merely the handle. 

 Les Eyzies. 



Eig. 8. A mottled dark-grey flint-flake, " tanged " at one end, and worked quite 

 narrow at the other, as a two-edged scraper, the mid-ridge only of the flake 

 remaining. The side edges are somewhat roughened, perhaps by use also. 

 Les Eyzies. 



* In this very interesting specimen of Cretaceous Flint the crust of the original flint-nodule is siliceous and 

 oolitic, the granules merely touching each other at their peripheries. This crust passes into the flint proper 

 by the presence of a larger proportion of infiltrated siliceous matter (probably chalcedony); and the flint itself 

 is oolitic, like some of that of the Portland Oolite, and like the siliceous Silurian Limestone of Durness in 

 North-west Scotland. All of these are good instances of silex being a pseudomorph after limestone. 



