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ment is smooth ; the opposite has a rotted surface. On one edge of the frag- 

 ment two long and deep notches have been cut, one following the other along 

 the stem; on each side of the lower notch twelve small, oblique, parallel 

 notches have been subsequently nicked out ; whilst only one edge of the upper 

 furrow has been cut into little oblique notches (seventeen). This looks like a 

 designed pattern for recognition as an Owner-mark. 

 From La Madelaine ? 



Fig. 10. This shows some incised markings on a large simple Dart-head, or Har- 

 poon, with bevelled butt. How far these letter-like cuts were intentional, or 

 the result of feeble carving after some intended pattern, it is difficult to say. 

 See page 198. 



From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 11. An imperfect, large, cylindrical Dart-head or Harpoon, with numerous 

 transverse, oblique, subparallel notches on one side. Like the foregoing, it 

 suggests the idea of intended lettering, or systematic signs for communication ; 

 but possibly feeble and inexperienced attempts at the production of a pattern 

 of successive pairs of notches, one notch nearly or quite transverse and the 

 other oblique to it (as in figs. 1 and 3), may have resulted in these quasi- 

 inscriptive cuttings. See page 198. 

 From La Madelaine ? 



