DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES BONE IMPLEMENTS, ETC. [B. XXV.] 163 



to cut circles or ovals with a stone implement. On each edge is a series of 

 distinct open notches ; these are irregular in size, and in position, not con- 

 forming one with another, nor with the series of transverse cuts. This unfor- 

 tunately broken specimen was possibly a Gambling-tool. See page 199. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 5. A piece of crushed rib-bone, in breccia. It is scored, on one side only, 

 with twenty-two transverse parallel scratch-like cuts. The end uppermost in 

 the figure is broken at a cut ; and the oblique line coming down from it is really 

 a definite line passing on to the second transverse line at an acute angle. See 

 page 199. Compare the scoring on fig. 2 a, B. Plate XXIII. 

 From Les Eyzies. 



Figs. 6 a, b. A fragment of subcylindrical Bird-bone, with a series of parallel 

 nicks on each side; one of the rows of little notches (fig. 6 a) shows obscurely 

 two threes and a six, with portions of other groups. See page 189. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Figs. Ta-d. Portion of a Dart-head, with bevelled butt. Fig. 7 a, natural size, 

 shows one of the broader sides of the Implement ; its surface is covered with 

 scraped lines, not so fine as on the sculptured edge (b). The lines on the bevel- 

 slope have been made with a scraper or knife having small irregular notches on 

 its edge. Fig. 7 b, natural size, is one of the narrow faces or edges, sculptured 

 with small pits, forty of which remain. Fig. lc shows four of the pits and a 

 portion of the surface, enlarged to show the lines drawn by a fine scraper to 

 receive the cuts, and to show the roughly crenated straight edge of each pit, 

 with some traces of striaB in the cavity, as if the tool with which the holes 

 were made was rough or serrated. At fig. 7 d a portion of the surface is seen 

 edgewise, showing the obliquity of the pits, which seem to have been excavated 

 with a small, possibly stone gouge. See page 200. 



From La Madelaine. 



The specimen is in the Oxford Museum; and Professor Phillips, F.E.S., of 

 Oxford, has kindly favoured us with these sketches and descriptive remarks. 



