KELIQTJLE AQUITANICLE. 



A. PLATE XXV. 



This Plate shows three views of one of the Chopper-like Implements common 

 in the Cave at Le Moustier, but occurring also at Les Eyzies and La Madelaine*. 

 See page 17 and A. Plate V. In this as in other instances, a part of the original 

 surface of the flint block remains, one margin only having been chipped into 

 shape, as a trenchant edge, boldly curved, and reaching from the sharp apex of 

 the Chopper to within a short distance of the blunt end (5f inches in diagonal 

 distance ; 6| inches along the curve), this latter extremity and the back of the 

 implement retaining the characters and thickness of the stone. This had origi- 

 nally been a weathered nodule of light-brown flint, broken longitudinally and 

 again weathered (glazed) on what is now the back of the Chopper. The cutting 

 edge was made with many bold strokes and by careful dressing ; and its surfaces 

 have been rendered opake and drab-coloured by subsequent weathering. Some of 

 the cave-breccia (stalagmite and fragments of Polyzoan limestone) still adheres to 

 one side of this fine specimen (figs. Ib and lc). 



From Les Eyzies. 



French millimetres. English inches. 



Length 150-3 5-916 



Breadth 76-2 3-000 



Thickness.. 32-3 . . 1-666 



* The Blackmore Museum, at Salisbury, possesses a flint Chopper, like the above, that was found at 

 Icklingham, and another (less neatly shaped) from Bury-St.-Edmund's, both in the Valley of the Lark, 

 Suffolk. Mr. John Evans, F.E.S., has specimens with much the same characters from the Valley of the 

 Little Ouse, Norfolk, from gravel at Bournemouth, Hants, and also from a high-level brick-earth pit in the 

 Valley of the Thames at Highbury. Implements of a similar kind were found by Col. A. Lane Fox., F.S. A., 

 nt the Cissbury Camp, in Sussex. 



