DESCKIPTIONS OF THE PLATES STONE IMPLEMENTS. [A. XLII.] 183 



A. STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



A. PLATE XLII. 



This selection of specimens, mostly differing from any figured in the foregoing 

 Plates, comprises some tools which must have been in use with the old Cave-folk 

 in their ordinary work of flaying, cutting, scraping, carving, &c.; whilst fig. 10 

 illustrates some useless splinters struck off tools already used, in the process of 

 redressing them, or converting them into implements of another sort. 



Fig. 1. A broad, thin, triangular, somewhat curved flake of light-brown sub- 

 translucent Flint, with the bulb at the blunt corner, on the flake-face (not 

 shown in the figure). It is slightly concave on that side. The outer face 

 retains the original drab granular crust, with a piece of shell (Inoceramiis) 

 partially converted into orbicular silex. There are some parallel striae (not 

 shown in the drawing) on the old crust, probably due to river-action or ice ; 

 also numerous small calcareous concretions, due to minute tubular concretions 

 over rootlets (?), of later date than the scoring. 



The three edges of this large flake have been sharpened by flaking (with the 

 scaling on the outer face), especially near and at the two corners distant from 

 the bulb and lowest in the figure, one rounded, the other angular, so that, held 

 by the thickest corner, the implement could be used as a flaying or flenshing 

 knife. A somewhat similar implement, of thin green slate, irregularly oval, 

 6 by 3 inches, in the CHRISTY COLLECTION, is labelled as a flenshing tool used 

 by the Esquimaux. In this one edge is made fit for the hand by wood-fibre (?) 

 and sinew being passed to and fro through holes in the slate near the margin, 

 and enveloping some straighter parallel strings of the same, intermixed with a 

 reddish cement. This is accompanied by another, smaller tool, with a straight 

 edge, also from the Esquimaux. 

 From Le Moustier. 



Fig. 2. A Double Scraper, made from a subtranslucent grey flake by careful and 

 neat dressing at sides and ends on the ridge-face, similar to the work bestowed 

 on the Javelin-heads &c. in A. Plates IV. and VI. 



From Laugerie. 



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