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A. PLATES XIX. & XX. 



The Flint Implements figured in these two Plates came from the different 

 beds of hearth-stuff, and the uppermost calcareous debris, in the Cro-Magnon 

 Cave, described at pages 66-68, the same forms being repeated in the successive 

 layers, and occurring also in company with the Human Skeletons in the upper- 

 most deposit of that Cave. They are all more or less glazed, and some are 

 whitened, by weathering. The longest specimen (A. Plate XX. fig. 3) was the only 

 one of the kind found here ; but it cannot be regarded as distinctively peculiar, 

 being merely a straight, simple flake, triangular in section. This specimen, 

 according to the statement of the workmen who began the excavation of the 

 Cave (p. 65), was picked up beside the Old Man's Skull ; see fig. 41, p. 67. 



The principal character of very many of these Flint Implements from Cro- 

 Magnon is their having been fashioned by much chipping on the edges and 

 ends. Their shapes are not very much diversified ; and the predominating form 

 is either that of the so called " Scraper," or it approaches that type. Simple 

 flakes more or less dressed, including many like those shown in A. Plate VIII., 

 are also very common. 



The nature of the Flint itself is not different from that found in the other 

 Stations, except that pieces with yellowish tints have been more frequently 

 employed. 



In the prevalence of Yellow Flint and of much chipped Scraper-like Imple- 

 ments the specimens from Cro-Magnon resemble those from the Gorge d'Enfer 

 (p. 4, and ' Revue Arche"ologique,' 1864, p. 240), collections from the two places 

 showing also a characteristic breadth, massiveness, and finish. Two of the larger, 

 and four smaller Grattoirs or Scrapers, stout and mostly yellow in colour, from 

 the Gorge d'Enfer, are figured in A. Plate X., and described at page 35. 



Thick flint-flakes (both flat and ridged) trimmed all along the edges and at the 

 ends are not rare at Laugerie Haute (p. 5, and ' Revue Archeologique,' 1864, 

 pp. 254 &c.) ; but there they are not equal in size to the large Scrapers from the 

 Gorge d'Enfer, and they are associated with numerous highly worked leaf-shaped 

 Implements, mostly lance-heads, such as are figured in A. Plate IV., and none 

 of which have been found at the Gorge d'Enfer or Cro-Magnon. At Laugerie, 

 also, there are numerous yellow specimens, but they do not predominate. 



At Laugerie Basse simple flakes, sometimes dressed at the ends, and usually of 

 dark tints, appear to be the most common Implements. 



