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away in trimming tlie flint-nodules to shape, and among Table-ease 

 them is a broken jaw of a woolly rhinoceros, which may 

 possibly represent part of the workman's food. There are 

 also completed implements. One example was accidentally 

 broken before it was finished, and so thrown aw^ay. Mr. 

 Spurrell recovered the two pieces, and also tlie numerous 

 flakes which were struck off in the fashioning of it. "With 



Fig. 1. — Block of Flint from Crayford, Kent, broken by Palaeolitbic jMau 

 in making an implement (A), wbicb was never finisbed because it 

 was accidentally fractured; one-third nat. size. (Spurrell Collection, 

 Table case 1.) 



great patience and skill he replaced all the flakes, thus Table- 

 i-estoriiig the flint-nodule to the original form which it had ■'■• 

 when raheolithic man selected it for his work (Fig. 1). 



The finest and most varied I'aheolithic stone implements 

 (flint or chert) are found with the bones of the Pleistocene 

 mammals in the higher layers of the caverns. They denote 

 a more advanced race of men, which Professor Boyd Pawkins 



