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types of stone implements, such as the grinding stones, pounding stones, flakem 

 hammers, arrow points, scrapers, &c., as being found both in tbe cave deposit and 

 in the talus in front of tbe cave. Tbe bushmen with these poisoned arrows were 

 a dangerous enemy to the Boers, even when the latter were equipped with 

 firearms. 



The prevalent type of instrument was tbe scraper, knife-shaped and axe-shaped 

 specimens being comparatively rare. Lighthouse Cave, at Cape St. Blaise, 

 referred to by Sir John Barrow in his travels, was described. Investigations of 

 this cave led to the discovery of many very fine specimens of skinning knives, 

 scrapers, work in flaked implements, and seemed to show that it had been a place 

 for the manufacture of these implements for many ages. He described the dis- 

 covery of three Hottentots living in a cave, in prehistoric condition, occupied in 

 digging out cave deposit which was used by the farms in the neighbourhood as 

 manure. In the recess of the cave large quantities of bone were found, evidently 

 having been stored away. 



The author has discovered in various beds of gravel at various altitudes largo 

 numbers of paloeolithic stone implements of very remarkable size and shape. These 

 he classified according to their position into neolithic or modern, palaeolithic or 

 ancient, and aeolithic, tbe latter being rude blocks of stone, whose acute angles 

 showed undoubted evidences of having been notched by hand. The evidence of 

 these gravels proved without doubt, in the opinion of the author, that South 

 Africa was the home of man at a very remote period of history. A remarkable 

 fact was that rcoliths found there corresponded exactly with the plateau imple- 

 ments found on the Kentish Weald by Mr. Harrison, and recently the subject of 

 much controversy. 



6. On some Roman Symbolic Hands. By F. T. Elworthy. 



After a reference to his paper on Dischi Sacri {' Proc. Soc. Antiq.,' vol. xvii, 

 series ii. p. 59), and to symbolic hand-gestures elsewhere, the author contends that 

 these hands are not votive otTerings, as Gori inferred from a single inscribed 

 specimen (No. 17), but objects of household worship. The following examples 

 were illustrated and described : — 



I. Berlin Museum : published by Caussens. ' Thes. Eom. Antiq.' vol. xii. 

 pp. 963 ; copied by Montfaucon (French ed.), vol. ii. p. 330 : Boettiger, ' Opuscula,' 

 Taf. ii. ; Jabn, 'Ber. d. k. Ges. d. AViss. z. Leipzig,' 1855, Taf. iv. 



2-3. Naples Museum, No. 5505 : two hands unpublished. 



4. Naples Museum, No. 5506: 'Bronze d'Ercolano,' vol. vii. p. 37; 'Anti- 

 cbita d'Ercolano,' vol. i. Tav. v. 



595 



5. Naples Museum, No. -^ : found at Pompeii, 1894 ; unpublished. 



6. Naples Museum : unpublished. 



7. Rome, Museo Kircheriano : found on the Isola Farnese, Rome ; Montfaucon^ 

 vol. ii. PI. 137 ; Jabn, /. c. p. 101. 



8. Rome, Museo Kircheriano : unpublished. 



9. Paris, Louvre : unpublished. 



10. Zurich Museum: found at Avenches; Meyer, 'Mitth. d. Antiq. Ges. z, 

 Zurich,' vol. xi. heft 12. 



II. Zurich Museum : found at Zion ; unpublished. 



12. Brescia Museum : found recently ; unpublished. 



13. Brescia Museum : found recently ; unpublished. 



14. Leyden Museum : unpublished; cf. Mever, /.c. 



15. British Museum: Payne Knight Collection; Elworthy, 'Evil Eye/ 

 p. 318. 



16. ? : found at Tournav ; Montfaucon, vol. ii. PI. 137. 



17. ? : Gori, ' Inscr. Antiq.' (Florence, 1643), vol. iii., PI. 5. 



18- ? : ' Diss, della P. Acad. d. Arch.' (Rome, 1836), toI. -viii., p. 427. 



