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SPECIMENS OF CETACEA. 



9. Implement made out of the beam of the antler of the Red 

 Deer {Cervus elephas) found beside the skull of the 

 Meiklewood whale, No. 6 ; it lay vertically in the blue 

 silt. It is 11 inches long by 6| inches in greatest 

 girth. A hole had been bored 4 inches from one end 

 of the implement and 7 inches from the other, and 

 the hole was occupied by a piece of wood 1| inch 

 long, obviously the remains of a handle ; the short 

 end was truncated or hammer-shaped, the long end 

 was bevelled or chisel-shaped. Described by Sir Wm. 

 Turner in Reports of Brit. Assoc, 1889, p. 790 ; in 

 " Early Man in Scotland," Proc. Royal Institution, 

 March 1897 ; and figured by Dr R. Munro in 

 Prehistoric Scotland, 1899. See Introduction, p. 9. 



