]2 . EELIQULE AQUITANIC^E. 



B. PLATE XVIII. 



Fif. 1. This is an implement made of Reindeer antler, the use of which seems to 

 us difficult to explain. The surface shown in fig. la is convex ; and the opposite 

 one is flat, as seen in fig. 16. The surface shown in fig. la is marked along the 

 middle throughout most of its length by two parallel close-set lines ; and on 

 each side of these median lines are carved in relief two series of rhombs, 

 obliquely set, alternate on either side. On the larger moiety of the surface 

 (left-hand, in the figure) there is an ornamental border-line of continuous 

 zigzags or chevrons, such as occurs very often in works of art of the Reindeer 

 Age. The upper and tapering extremity of this implement is marked with 

 some oblique scratches, in pairs, but unequal and shallow ; the lower end has 

 six long, vertical, parallel, and nearly regular notches. 



On the opposite face (not figured) this specimen shows for the greatest part 

 of its length a large number of shallow notches, obliquely diverging to the 

 right and left of a median line, some pointing towards the top and others 

 towards the butt of the instrument ; and this lower end is hollowed, for from 

 15 to 18 lines, with a broad and shallow groove. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



Fig. 2. Another implement of Reindeer antler, convex on one side and flat on the 

 other. Its ends taper to bluntish points : the end uppermost in the figure is 

 shaped by lateral cuts ; the lower end is plano-convex with thin edges. The 

 middle of the convex face is cut into two series of broad irregular notches, 

 alternating on either side of a narrow median ridge, and separated one from 

 another by hold nodular eminences*. 



The opposite face (not shown in the figure) is flat in its breadth and slightly 

 convex longitudinally : it is scored with numerous transverse lines, at unequal 

 distances. 



The use of this specimen is uncertain. [Possibly it may have served as a 

 spike lashed on obliquely to the bevelled end of a shaft, such as Australian and 

 South-American savages use in many of their single-barbed spears and javelins 

 (see also p. 58). T. R. J.] 



From Laugerie Basse. 



Fig. 3. An implement of Reindeer antler, tapering in its upper fifth to a sharp 



* This specimen was figured in outline in the ' Eevue Archeologique,' 1864. 



