DESCEIPTIONS OF THE PLATES STONE IMPLEMENTS. [A. XXXI.] 1 3 1 



A. PLATE XXXI. 



These are common flint flakes, of which some are more or less dressed into 

 shape, such as figs. 3, 5, and 11 ; and these, with figs. 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9, may have- 

 been intended for heads of weapons. Figure 8 is either a double-pointed weapon- 

 head, to be lashed on obliquely, serving for both point and barb (like some bone 

 specimens, pages 58 and 124), or it has been a scraping-tool in the hands of the 

 old carver of bone and wood. 



Fig. 1. Simple flake ; brownish-grey, minutely chipped at the edges, on alternate 

 sides, perhaps by slight use as a scraper. 

 From Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 2. Simple flake ; translucent, brown. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



Fig. 3. Triangular flake, translucent, brownish; weathered grey. Somewhat 

 shaped towards the point, and narrowed at the butt, by a slight dressing. 

 From Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 4. Simple flake, dark grey ; edges minutely chipped here and there. 

 From Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 5. Narrow flake of grey and granular flint ; shaped at point, butt, and one 

 side, by careful chipping on the face not shown in the figure. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



Fig. 6. Narrow, thick, simple flake of dark-grey, mottled, spicular flint, chipped 

 on the convex edge near the point. 

 From Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 7. The larger portion of a broad, thin, arched flake; brownish-grey and 

 mottled. [The dotted lines in the figure are probably more than half too long.] 

 From Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 8. Dark brownish-grey, mottled flake, shaped and worn. The point upper- 

 most in the figure has been made by both sides having been chipped and worn 

 away at right angles to the lower face ; but the lower point has lost the sides 



