DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES BONE IMPLEMENTS, ETC. 95 



B. PLATE XII. 



This Plate, drawn, like the foregoing, without the use of a mirror, and there- 

 fore with the figures reversed, represents objects found in either the Sepulture 

 or the layers of Hearth-stuff in the Cave of Cro-Magnon. 



Fig. 1. A cylindrical piece of Reindeer Horn, artificially rounded and finished off 

 at one end with a smooth point. "We can say nothing as to its intended use, 

 nor as to its original length, its lower part having been broken by an old 

 fracture. This seems to have been found with the human skeletons, or at least 

 in the uppermost layer in which the Burial had been made. 



Fig. 2, a. An Arrow- or Harpoon-head of the lanceolate type, like those found in 

 1860 in the Sepulture at Aurignac*. It has lost its point by an old fracture. 

 At its base, seen edgewise in fig. 2 b, we clearly see the slit in which we may 

 suppose the bevelled end of the shaft to have been inserted t. 



Besides the arrow-heads of this type found at Aurignac, we may refer to that 

 found, by MM. les Abbes Bourgeois and DelaunayJ, in the Grotte de la Chaise 

 (Charente). The late M. Poirrier de Monte"ombroux found one of similar 

 shape in the Grotte des Fe"es, at Chatelperrou (Allier) ; and one of the Stations 

 at the Gorge d'Enfer, on the right bank of the Vezere, opposite Les Eyzies, 

 has furnished us with numerous specimens of these arrow-heads, with a more 

 or less dilated base, and always tapering, without any trace of lateral 

 barbs. Hitherto we have not met with this kind of arrow-head in any of 

 the Stations that yields barbed arrows or harpoons, such as those figured in 

 B. Plate XIV. We have also remarked that the lanceolate arrow-head is 

 nearly always associated with a larger assemblage of extinct species of animals 

 than that ordinarily accompanying the barbed kind of arrow-heads and other 

 products of more advanced art and industry. 



Fig. 3. A piece of a long bone of a Herbivore (perhaps a Horse), shaped into a 

 perfectly rounded tapering point, like a great Bodkin, Skewer, Pin, Awl, or 

 Javelin-point. The base shows no indication of a handle. 



*< Ann. Be. Nat. 4 me ser., Zoologie, vol. xv. pages 188 and 251, pi. 11. figs. 4 & 8 (1861). 



t This is the reverse of the method adopted for the moveahle Dart-heads figured in B. Plates IX. <fe X., 

 page 68. 



J Revue Archeologique, 1865: Notice sur la Grotte de la Chaise, par MM. Bourgeois et Delaunay, 

 pi. 17. fig. 2. 



