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A. PLATE XXVII. 



These broad rough flakes, of which only two (figs. 1 and 3) have been dressed 

 at the edges, are chiefly from Le Moustier, fig. 3 being from Laugerie. Figure 2, 

 having no marks of use on it, was probably a waste flake ; figs. 4, 5, and 6 appear 

 to have served for temporary use in scraping or cutting flesh, bone, or wood, as 

 one edge at least is slightly worn in each. Figures 1 and 3 have a certain simi- 

 larity of form, evidently due to design, in their falciform shape, in the notch on 

 the concave edge, and in their shoulder and tang. These two specimens appear 

 to have been prepared for some special use, probably as Side-scrapers ; their ends 

 are too blunt for good Spear-heads. 



Fig. 1. A portion of a flake of dark-grey flint, dressed to a knife-shape with one 

 edge convex and the other doubly concave ; the notch in the upper moiety of 

 the latter is old. The apex is bluntly pointed ; the butt is truncate (end of 

 flake) and reduced in vertical thickness, especially at the edges, by chipping. 

 Weathered light-mottled grey, especially on the broad face. 

 From Le Moustier. 



Fig. 2. A simple rough flake of dark-grey and highly spicular flint. The " bulb 

 of percussion," prominent on the flake-face (not shown in the figure), has been 

 partly chipped off. The thin end of the flake (upwards in the figure) is natu- 

 rally chisel-shaped ; but, like the other edges, it is intact. 

 From Le Moustier. 



Fig. 3. A drab-coloured, knife-like, double-edged Scraper, much resembling fig. 1, 

 but rather more symmetrical. The dressed convex edge terminates in a blunt 

 apex at each end ; and these are much more nearly alike than in fig. 1. The 

 opposite edge is more equally divided by the prominent part of the flake, and is 

 of nearly uniform thickness throughout. The notch in its longer half is of old 

 date ; for stalagmite is attached to its hollow surface. This implement can be 

 very conveniently held between the thumb and bent fingers, with its convex 

 edge exposed, and less conveniently in other positions. 

 From Laugerie Haute. 



Fig. 4. A broad thick flake of grey-brown, subtranslucent flint, retaining on the 

 ridge-face a portion of the original calcareous crust of the flint-nodule. The 



