RELIQUIAE AQUITANIC^E. 



B. PLATE XXII. 



We here figure a group of the barbed and grooved Harpoon-heads, bulbed at 

 the butt, such as have been found in the rock-shelter of La Madelaine in large 

 numbers and with endless modification of pattern. A few have been met with at 

 Laugerie Basse. They have been carved out of Reindeer-horn. Some have evi- 

 dently been repointed (figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6), and, as usual, with a wedge-shaped 

 or bevelled point. All have grooves along each barb; and most have grooves 

 also at the base of each barb, short or long, and either parallel with the stem or 

 obliquely across the root of the barb. 



Observations on this kind of Implement, ancient and modern, are given at 

 pages 9, 49, and TOO, with the descriptions of the specimens illustrated by 

 B. Plates I., VI., and XIV. 



Fig. 1. Slender, with the usual conical butt and lateral bulbs; it retains six 

 grooved barbs ; but it had more ; for the remains of three others have been 

 left in repointing the head. The grooves at the base of each barb are angular, 

 and thus enclose it with a lozenge-shaped incision. 



Fig. 2. A large specimen, broken at the apex, apparently after repointing; seven 

 grooved barbs remain. The grooves on the stem are short, and straight across 

 the roots of the barbs. 



Fig. 3. Stout, with only four barbs : it has been reduced in length by fracture 

 and repointing. The grooves on the barbs are each continued straight along 

 the stem to the next barb above. 



Fig. 4. Rather slender, with only a pair of barbs perfect ; the others are broken ; 

 a long interval occurs on one side without a barb. The top has been repointed. 

 The barbs are grooved ; but the stem is not distinctly grooved ; perhaps it was 

 pared down when repointed. 



Fig. 5. The sharp end of a slender, many -barbed Harpoon. Eleven grooved barbs 

 belong to the fragment, which retains the original tapering, terete, or nearly 

 cylindrical point. Short vertical grooves occur between the barbs. 



Fig. 6. A portion of a slender specimen ; the butt is gone ; the apex has been 

 repointed ; seven grooved barbs remain, with oblique notches at their roots. 



Fig. 7. Part of a many-barbed Harpoon ; the extreme point is lost : eleven close- 

 set grooved barbs remain on the fragment ; and oblique grooves cross their bases. 



