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KELIQUI^E AQUITAJSTICLE. 



A. PLATE XXXIV. 



A series of the common round-ended Scraper-like Implements, or simple flakes 

 more or less dressed and rounded at one or both ends, are here figured. They are 

 from several Stations. In some instances signs of their side-edges having been 

 used in scraping are evident enough, as we have noticed in other instances 

 (pages 23 &c.). More or less oblong Scrapers of similar and allied types are 

 figured in A. Plates VII., X., XIX., XX., and XXIV., also here and there among 

 the figures in other plates, and in the woodcut (fig. 3, b, c) at page 22. 



The applicability, and indeed actual use, of the round-ended flakes, called 

 " Scrapers," " Thumb-flints," and " Finger-flints," for striking a light with a piece 

 of iron-pyrites*, has been clearly illustrated of late by Mr. John Evans, F.R.S., 

 and the Rev. Canon Greenwell (see Evans's ' Ancient Stone Implements of Great 

 Britain,' 1872, pages 284 & 285). 



Fig. 1. A neat brownish specimen of the common round-ended Implement or 

 "Thumb-flint." Each of the lateral edges has been worn down to a nearly 

 straight line ; and one of them (on the left hand in the figure) has been worn 

 away to some little distance within the original curve of the rounded end. A 

 smoothing of the minute jags of the worn edges is perhaps referable to a 

 secondary use of the edges ; and just such an edge is produced in a flint flake 

 by scraping a bone with it, and afterwards using it for detaching gristle and 

 sinew, or for shaping a piece of wood. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



Fig. 2. A broad, flat, round-ended Scraper of grey granular fossiliferous flint. 

 From Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 3. A roughly shaped Scraper-like Implement of dark-grey mottled flint, with 

 small patches of stalagmitic cement still attached. 

 From Le Moustier. 

 This specimen seems to be particularly well adapted for " striking a light," 



* We are informed by Mr. A. Madgett that he has himself seen two flints used to light a fire at Thran- 

 destone, Suffolk, and that the practice was not at all uncommon in Suffolk and Norfolk within the last fifty 

 years. He says that " they were certainly two flints, very dark, with sharp edges. The ' tinder ' used was 

 very dry moss, laid on the ground ; and the flints were struck together very quickly, just above it." 



