BONE IMPLEMENTS. 



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Bone and horn implements are rarely found, owmg no doubt, 

 in some measure, to their being liable to decay. I have only met 

 with them in the shape of a hammer, made from the lower part of 

 a red-deer's antler [fig. 33]; what may have been a pick for ex- 



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cavatino- the chalk or a hoc for breaking up the ground, also made 

 of a red-deer's antler ^ [fig. 34]; a knife or scraping mstrument 

 formed out of a split and sharpened boards tusk 



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X This horn implement was found in a grave hollowed out o£ tl^yjf^^ ;-^-\\\^ 

 T?urlstone and as it is identical in shape, and in the signs of wear at the end ot the 

 tt' wUh s til :^. eh had been used as picks for excavating the chalk m the flmt 

 n^; at ariine's Graves ^^^^^^^ "^r^^^^Z^^t. 



c 3y on the under side, as to give the impression that it must have been used 

 amonS some softer material than chalk, and if so, possibly m tdhng the ground. 



