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and had neither heen used, nor exposed to the rolling or abrading action of 

 Avater in motion. It was found in the Chamhcr, 53 feet from the external 

 entrance, in the fourth foot-level below the stalagmite, which was from 12 

 to 15 inches thick and extended uninterruptedly for considerable distances 

 in every direction. 



The lanceolate " implements " are of two kinds — round-pointed and sharp- 

 pointed. They are widest near the posterior extremity, and one surface has 

 usually a central longitudinal ridge or keel, whilst the other is flat, or concave 

 lengthwise, but which, whether Hat or concave, appears almost invariably to 

 liave been produced at a single stroke. Of the round-pointed variety, a well- 

 formed specimen was found in the Chamber, 46 feet from the entrance, in the 

 upper part of the first level or foot of cave-earth, immediately below the 

 stalagmite, which, at this part, was from one and a half to three feet thick. 

 It measures about two inches long, and three-quarters of an inch broad ; it 

 is strongly carinated on one side, and longitudinally concave on the other. 

 A second and still finer " implement " measures nearly three and a half 

 inches long, rather more than one inch in greatest breadth, and four-tenths 

 of an inch thick. It diifers from the former in a few particulars. The cen- 

 tral longitudinal ridge, at about an inch and a half from the hinder end, 

 bifurcates symmetrically as if a small flake had been struck oft'. Hence the 

 carinated side has three distinct surfaces, each of which is very slightlj- con- 

 cave. There are several small facets, each produced, no doubt, by a separate 

 and wcU-directed gentle stroke on the rounded anterior extremity, which 

 seems too thick to render it probable that the "implement" could have been 

 intended to be iised as a spear-head. Eut for these facets, the "implement," 

 though beautifully and very symmetrically shaped, appears to have required no 

 more than four strokes for its formation ; but in order to do this, the fracture 

 must in each case have been remarkably clean. Indeed the beautiful smooth- 

 ness by which all the surfaces are characterized suggests a doubt as to whether 

 it may not have been produced by some degree of polishing. The small facets, 

 however, are perhaps scarcely in keeping with this hypothesis. Its posterior 

 extremity is not sharply truncated, but somewhat irregular, and both its 

 lateral margins are slightly broken. It was found very near the centre of 

 the Chamber, 2 feet deep in the red earth, and having over it a thick floor 

 of stalagmite. Like the specimen previouslj- described, it is formed of very 

 fine-grained flint of a light cream-colour. On one side it is longitudinally 

 concave. 



The " implements " belonging to the second variety differ from these not 

 only in being sharp-pointed, but in tapering more rapidly near the anterior 

 extremity, in terminating in a thinner point, near which the keel, instead of 

 being rectilineal, is gently curved, and the lateral margins, instead of being 

 symmetrical, are one slightly convex and the other concave, conforming, in 

 fact, to the deflection of the central ridge. In one specimen there are, on the 

 flat side and near the point, several very small marginal facets. This fine 

 " implement," or rather portion of one, is of whitened flint. It was found in 

 the Chamber, 48 feet from the entrance, in the third level, beneath a thick 

 floor of stalagmite. 



Amongst the lanceolate " implements " there is one sharply truncated at 

 both ends, the point probably having been broken off. It is 3 inches long, 

 but when entire must have measured another inch ; its greatest width some- 

 what exceeds 1 inch. The flat side has been produced by a series of blows, 

 and suggests the ideas that the stroke which detached the "implement" 



