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broad end (probably from use), and tapering obliquely to a blunt point at the 

 other, one side being elliptically convex and the other nearly straight. Edges 

 apparently worn. 



Fig. 5. A simple flattish flake of light-brown spicular flint, the thin end of which 

 has been somewhat squared and fashioned as a chisel by small chippings on 

 the edges and both faces. The but-end is truncate, and narrowed by a lateral 

 fracture. This is a rare type among the Flint Implements from "Dordogne. We 

 have one large stout flake from Les Eyzies, and one from the Gorge d'Enfer, 

 showing such a point. We also have a short stout flake, trimmed and chisel- 

 pointed, from the North of Ireland ; and this has been crushed at the but-end, 

 seemingly by blows. 



Fig. 6. A short oblong Double Scraper of yellow granular flint, shading off into 

 grey. One end is more neatly rounded than the other, and one side is straighter 

 than the other, irregularities probably due to wear and tear. 



Fig. 7. A subovate tongue-shaped Double Scraper. See also woodcuts, figs. 19 a, 

 b, c, p. 85. Piece of a flake worked all over the back with bold chippings, a 

 part of the original flat face remaining as the under surface, the broad end of 

 which is irregular in the curvature of its outline, probably from use. This 

 specimen is partly brownish grey, and partly marked with concentric bands 

 of brown and grey. The only two specimens represented in these two Plates 

 that retain little or nothing of the original ridge-face of the flakes out of which 

 they were made are figs. 7 and 10. We have, from Laugerie, a neat Double 

 Scraper of light-grey flint, that has been worked all over the back with careful 

 chipping. 



Fig. 8. A drab-coloured, carefully chipped Implement, obliquely rounded at one 

 end, beak-shaped at the other, and nearly straight on the sides, which appear 

 to have been used. The notch has a fresher look than the rest of the surface ; 

 it has been produced by the removal of probably only one flake, leaving a thin, 

 entire, curved edge, quite unworn. The original flint flake was flattish, but 

 slightly curved, opake and fossiliferous (Orbitoides and Spicula). 



Fig. 9. A mottled grey beaked Implement, somewhat like the last, but made out 

 of a thick high-backed flake (triangular in section), the ridge of which (crushed 

 and battered) is parallel with and close to the straight and thick side (unworn 

 except at the ridge). This straight side (on which the specimen can stand on 



