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A. PLATE XLI. 



A miscellaneous group of dressed and worn Implements, made out of flakes ; 

 from various Stations. Figures 1, 7, 15, and 17 (all broken) are lanceolate Wea- 

 pon-heads, shaped with care. Figures 2, 8, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21, and 23 have either 

 been dressed as Drills, or have been worn at one end into slopes or notches, with a 

 point remaining in the middle. Figure 3 is worn into two deep notches. Figure 10 

 seems to be a Saw ; figs. 5 and 12 have a series of broad lateral notches, more pro- 

 bably for scraping needles* than for sawing; and these, as well as figs. 9, 13, 18, 

 20, 22, and 24, seem to have been used as Side-scrapers fig. 22 on both edges, 

 and fig. 24, as is more usual, only on half an edgef. All these kinds of Imple- 

 ments, or their analogues, have been already noticed in other portions of this book. 

 That some of the small ones may have been tattooing -tools has been suggested by 

 our friend Mr. Sydney Webb, of Eedhill. 



Fig. 1. Brownish-grey flake trimmed into a lanceolate Weapon by chipping chiefly 

 on the convex face. Broken. 

 From Laugerie. 



Fig. 2. Portion of a flake, worn at one end as a Drill or Scraper. (Lost.) 



Fig. 3. Bulb-end of a small mottled-grey flake, worn into a notch on each side J. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 4. Piece of a small, simple, ridge-flake of clear Rock-crystal . 

 From Laugerie Haute. 



Fig. 5. Portion of a narrow, dark-coloured flake, worn down on one edge, as a 

 Side-scraper, and either dressed on the other as a coarse Saw of seven teeth, or 

 worn into five notches by scraping small cylindrical stems and Needles. 

 From Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 6. The apex of a yellowish-grey flake, slightly chipped on edges and point. 

 From the Gorge d'Enfer. 



* As suggested for similar specimens, from the Trou de Chaleux, by Dr. E. Dupont, ' L'Homme pendant 

 les Ages de la Pierre,' 2nd Edit., 1872, pages 149 and 151. 



t Some similar implements, from the Trou de Chaleux, are figured in plates 6 and 7 of Dr. Dupont's 

 ' Notices preliminaires sur les fouilles dans les cavernes de la Belgique,' vol. ii. 1867, and reproduced in his 

 ' L'Homme ' &c. 1872. 



i Compare figs. 4 and 8, pi. 6, Dupont's ' Notices preliminaires ' <fec. vol. ii. 



Flakes and angular pieces of rock-crystal and vein-quartz have been met with also at Laugerie Basse 

 and La Madelaine. 



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