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this body were the completely scattered remains of three others, two 

 adults and a child. Fourteen feet south of the centre and upon 

 the natural surface was another partially disturbed body, of which 

 the lower part of the vertebral column, the head, the finger-bones, 

 the sacrum, and the femurs were still in their original position. 

 The body, that of a young man about twenty years of age, had been 

 laid on the right side, the head being to N.E,, and the hands up to 

 the face. Five feet south of the present centre, but probably at 

 what had in the first instance been the centre, and if so then the 

 primary interment, was the body of a young man from twenty to 

 twenty-four years of age, which had happily almost entirely 



Fig. 154. |. 



escaped disturbance. He was laid on the right side, with the 

 head to N. and the hands up to the face. In front of the knees 

 was a hammer, made from the brow end of a red-deer's antler 

 [fig. 154]. It is very carefully formed from the horn of probably 

 a slain animal, for part of the skull is still attached to the horn, 

 and has been worked into a round projection at one end of the 

 hammer. The hole for the handle is very exactly perforated, and is 

 1|- in. wide, the length of the implement itself being 3| in .^ Between 

 the humerus and the radius and ulna of the right arm was a long 

 and thick piece of chert, triangular in section, and having the 

 lower end worn quite smooth by long-continued use. It is 3|- in. 

 long, and has some of the old skin of the chert nodule still remaining 



^ Deer's-hora has been freely used by the people of the stone age for the manufacture 

 of hammers, axes, as well as stone -axe and other sockets. Such articles have been fre- 

 quently found in this comitry, as also in France, Denmark, Switzerland, and other parts 

 of Europe. A hammer almost identical with the one in question, discovered at Yverdun 

 in the bed of the Thiele, is figured in Troyon, Habitations Lacustres, pi. iv. fig. 15. 



