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A. PLATE XXVIII. 



Four very different types of flint implements, from the Cave at Le Moustier, 

 are here shown*. Figure 1 is a small, sharp, thin-pointed Spear-head, pear-shaped, 

 biconvex, and chipped all over, of the same type as many of the old implements 

 from the Valley of the Somme and elsewhere. Several specimens of this type, of 

 different sizes, have been found at Le Moustier (see, for instance, A. Plate III. 

 fig. 2, and A. Plate XVII. figs. 1 and 2); and one from Laugerie Haute is figured 

 in A. Plate XXI. fig. 5. A small rough flint Lance-head (?) of this kind was 

 found in Wokey Hole, Somersetshire, by Mr. Boyd Dawkins, and is figured in 

 the ' Geol. Soc. Quart. Journ.' vol. xviii. p. 118. Such a one also has been brought 

 by Mr. Bauerman from the mines of "Wady Taibe, in Arabia Petrsea. Others, 

 of larger size, have been found in the ancient tumuli (" mounds ") of North 

 America ; and others were met with by Col. A. Lane Fox, F.S.A., among the flint 

 tools and weapons at the Camp-station of Cissbury, in Sussex ; and the same type 

 is common among the implements of quartzite found in India. Figure 2 is 

 somewhat similar to fig. 1, but it is a leaf-shaped piece of flake, dressed on one 

 side only, and in so much resembles the larger and rougher specimens from 

 Le Moustier, A. Plate III. fig. 1, and A. Plate XI. figs. 1 and 3, and that from 

 Laugerie Basse, A. Plate XI. fig. 2 ; similarly dressed flakes also, oval and ovate, 

 are associated with the biconvex " Haches " and " Langues du chat " wherever 

 these are found. Figure 3 is a roughly trimmed, lozenge-shaped piece of flat 

 flake, and may also have served as a Spear-head, or as a pointed Axe-blade. Very 

 many of the tools and weapons from Le Moustier have been similarly fashioned 

 from rough flakes, by chipping away their edges, more or less carefully, into tri- 

 angular, obliquely elliptical, and various leaf -like outlines, the bulb (if remaining) 

 rarely lying in the middle of the butt-end, but on one side or the other of the long 

 axis of the specimen. Indeed fig. 2 really belongs to this category, though it is 

 of superior manufacture. Figure 4 is a neatly chipped and symmetrical piece of 

 a thick flake, and may have served as a Wedge, Chisel, Adze, Axe, Spear-head, or 

 Scraper. Figure 5, a carefully dressed long-ovate Arrow-head, belongs to a type 

 known by this specimen only (if correctly localized) at Le Moustier, where small 

 implements, even small flakes, are not usual. It belongs to the same category as 

 the well chipped weapon-heads from Laugerie Haute, figured in A. Plate IV. 



* There is some doubt as to the locality of fig. 5. 



