DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES STONE IMPLEMENTS. [A. XL.] 173 



A. PLATE XL. 



The Implements here figured are from the Moustier Cave. Fig. 1 is a ridge- 

 flake, pointed at one end by dressing and wear as a scraping and boring tool, 

 analogues of which may be seen in A. Plate VIII. fig. 8 ; Plate XV. fig. 4 ; Plate 

 XVIII. figs. 2, 8, 9, 11; and Plate XXI. fig. 3. Figures 2 and 3 are broad short 

 flakes dressed to a triangular outline, and are to be classed among similar forms 

 referred to at pages 136 and 172. The symmetrical point of fig. 2, turned to the 

 left hand upwards, and that of fig. 3, turned to the right hand, are comparable with 

 the very symmetrical lance-like points of the similarly prepared flakes A. Plate 

 XXVIII. fig. 2, and Plate XXXIII. fig. 3; and to this symmetry of proportion 

 even the larger and coarser flake Implement, A. Plate XXXVII. fig. 4, also from 

 Le Moustier, markedly approximates. Figures 5, 6, and 7 are flakes dressed care- 

 fully into lanceolate, plano-convex weapons, with neat butts ; and very many 

 analogous forms, varying from the narrow specimen in A. Plate XIX. fig. 1, to the 

 large Implement, A. Plate III. fig. 1, are not rare at Le Moustier and elsewhere. 

 Figure 4 is more highly finished, dressed on both faces, biconvex, oval, and 

 trenchant along its whole margin. Larger tools of this style, but more lanceolate, 

 and thicker at the butt, are characteristic of Le Moustier (as A. Plate III. fig. 2 ; 

 Plate XVII. figs. 1 and 2 ; Plate XXI. fig. 5 ; and Plate XXVIII. fig. 1), and re- 

 mind the archaeologist, as has been before remarked, of the so-called Drift-type 

 of Implement from the old gravels. 



Fig. 1. A mottled grey arched flake, pointed at one end ; chipped on one edge, 

 and retaining some of the original crust at the other. 



Fig. 2. Mottled, dark-grey, broad flake, carefully dressed to a triangle, one point 

 of which (to the left hand in the figure) is sharp and regular. 



Fig. 3. Somewhat similar to fig. 2, but less symmetrical. 



Fig. 4. Brownish-grey, broad-oval, biconvex, sharp along the edge, and dressed on 

 both faces. The notch is probably of recent origin. 



Fig. 5. Dark-grey flake retaining "bulb of percussion," shaped by dressing on the 

 ridge-side into a sharply pointed Lance-head (?), with thick butt. A patch of 



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