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A. PLATE XXXVII. 



Three simple unused flakes, the waste in dressing blocks, and three large coarse 

 flakes dressed as Scrapers or Strikers, of different shapes, are here represented. 



Fig. 1. A simple rough flake of brownish-grey, granular, subtranslucent flint. It 

 retains a small patch of stalagmite. 

 From Le Moustier. 



Fig. 2. A simple flake of dark subtranslucent flint. 

 From Le Moustier. 



Fig. 3. A simple rough flake of dark-grey flint. 

 From Laugerie if aute ? 



Fig. 4. A thick triangular flake of dark-grey flint, trimmed on the edges towards 

 the apex. One edge is straighter than the other. The thick butt retains some 

 of the original crust of the flint. Serviceable as a Spear-head, Axe, or other 

 weapon or tool, especially as a strong Scraper for coarse wood-work. 

 From Le Moustier. 



Fig. 5. A rough flake from the outside of a somewhat waterworn flint-nodule, 

 which has been reduced on the back (the surface figured), and carefully trimmed 

 to a circular outline for more than half its circumference (the right-hand and 

 lower part of the figure), the bulb portion (on the reverse of the left-hand side) 

 and a neighbouring projecting point being left to form a nearly straight rough 

 edge, for holding in the hand, or for hafting ; whilst the neatly rounded edge 

 would serve as a broad Scraper or Chopper. 



It is of brownish subtranslucent flint, mottled grey by weathering. Imbedded 

 in the remaining portion of original crust lies the cast of a small Cyphosoma 

 (Turban Sea-urchin), not well rendered by the artist. 



From Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 6. A thick flake of greyish flint (the bulb is on the reverse of the upper end 

 of the figure), mottled by weathering, and retaining some of the opaque whitish 

 crust along the thick edge. This constitutes the back of the implement ; whilst 



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