DESCEIPTIONS OF THE PLATES STONE IMPLEMENTS. [A. XXI.] 105 



A. STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



A. PLATE XXI. 



The five specimens here figured exhibit very different styles of workmanship, 

 from one Rock-shelter that of Laugerie Haute. Figure 1 was shaped with care, 

 and its sharp tapering point was carefully thinned on both faces. Figure 2 is 

 one of the boldly chipped, flat, symmetrical specimens that indicate the treat- 

 ment of a master-hand, or, at least, of an experienced Weapon-maker among the 

 Flint-folk. Specimens somewhat like this, but much smaller, have been figured 

 in A. Plates IV. & VI. Figure 3 required but little dressing to reduce its narrow 

 portion to the form of a rough drill. Figure 4 is a very rough production, only 

 distantly resembling the neatly lanceolate and biconvex implement such as fig. 5 ; 

 but, as its thick edge appears to have been worn down by use, it has served for 

 some definite purpose. Figure 5, though small, belongs to the well-known type 

 of prehistoric implements of chipped stone, more or less oval in outline, and 

 more convex on one face than the other, in which a continuous and undulating 

 cutting edge has resulted from the method followed in chipping the sides. In 

 the full possession of these characters it resembles many of the old implements 

 from the gravel of the Somme and elsewhere much more nearly than the 

 specimen from Le Moustier described and figured above, page 6, A. Plate III. 

 fig. 2, and rather more so than those in A. Plate XVII. figs. 1 & 2, page 78. 

 This small, thick, rough, leaf-shaped type of implement is not an uncommon 

 .associate of the more abundant and more highly worked lance-head type at 

 Laugerie Haute. 



Fig. 1. A narrow lanceolate implement, formed out of a thickish flake of light- 

 brown subtranslucent flint, by chipping on the outer face; and towards the 

 point (lost by old fracture) the inner face also is somewhat reduced by 

 chipping. Mottled grey all over by weathering. 

 From Laugerie Haute. 



Fig. 2. A fragment of a large, thin, lanceolate implement of brownish-grey, 

 granular, subtranslucent flint ; made by bold chipping on both faces. It is 



