296 REV. J. MAGENS MELLO, M.A., F.G.S. ETC. 
implements of crescent, trapezoidal, triangular, spikelet, and 
other forms are all trimmed into shape by very neat secondary 
chipping, and are not simply flakes unworked, which may be 
of any form when detached from the core or nucleus. Now it is 
very remarkable that small implements of these peculiar types have 
been found in certain places,—in Central India, Syria, the Crimea, 
and along the shores of the Mediterranean, Portugal, in France, and 
also, I believe, they may be traced into Britain. Thus they have been 
discovered in caves and rock shelters of the Vindhya Hills (in 
large quantities), in Baghelkand and Bundelkand associated with 
pictographs on the walls and pieces of hematite, in Banda, Rewa, 
&c., and in Syria (near Bethlehem),* abundantly near Kizilkoba 
(Crimea),t in Egypt, Tunis, and, I believe, in other places in 
North Africa. In Italy, Portugal (in Kjockkenmoeddings), also 
in France, as at Hedouville and Coincy L’Abbaye.{ Those from 
India were originally discovered by Mr. A. C. Carlyle, late Archeeo- 
logist to the Indian Government, who presented examples of all the 
forms to me. Very small cores and flakes of obsidian have been 
found on the Isle of Melos and other islands in the Greek Archi- 
pelago, indicating the same industry. It is curious that those from 
the rock shelters of the Vindhya Hills were often found associated 
with ground hematite and pieces of the same substance evidently 
used as a pigment, perhaps for tattooing, and that the walls were 
decorated with pictographs, possibly early endeavours to form 
written language. Since my paper directing attention to the 
subject was written, a carefully-trimmed, crescent-like implement 
has been shown to me from the Surrey hills, and I believe Canon 
Greenwell has one of the scalene triangular form, from York- 
shire or Lancashire. With regard to the two latter, of course it 
would not be safe to trust to the discovery of two specimens, 
though I have little doubt that others will be found. In most 
of the other places,—in India, the Crimea, Africa, &c.,—they 
have been found abundantly. I have a large number of 
these highly-specalised forms in my collection. As I have 
* “Collections from the Holy Land,” &c., Captain Burton, Jour. 
Anthrop. Inst., vol. i. 
+ Premicres Recherches sur V’Age de Pierre en Crimée en Russe. M. 
Merejkowski, St. Petersburg. . 
{ L’Homme, M. G. de Mortillet, Directeur, for August and November 
1885, &c.; also for 1884, p. 145. 
