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significance did not occur to me then, and I did not preserve them. 

 I afterwards thought that they might have been bolas, such as are 

 used in South America for catching game. They were of a suitable 

 size for such a pui'pose. 



7. During the time when the Upper Greensand of Cambridgeshire 

 was being extensively worked for phosphatic nodules (miscalled 

 ' coprolites'), a pit was opened in 1880 near Grantchester vicarage 

 house. ^ The heading consisted of a bed of gravel containing teeth 

 of Elephas primigenius and among others many shells of Cyrena 

 fluminalis. 



At a depth of 12 feet in this gravel was found a piece of red 

 ochre, cut into a form somewhat similar to that into which tailors 

 cut trench chalk for marking cloth, a form especially suitable for 

 drawing lines. Its specific gravity is about 4"5. It is now figured 



Fig. 5. Eough sketch to show " Lower end, posterior part of left humerus of 

 a large ungulate, probably Bos taurus, showing the part (a) from which 

 the above fragment (see Fig. 4) was obtained ; the hollow is part of the 

 natural configuration of the bone " [W. L. H. D.]. 



(Fig. 3). It is an inch long, three-quarters of an inch wide at the 

 edge, and three-eighths thick at the back. I sent this specimen to 

 Professor Boyd Dawkins for his opinion, and he replied that a bit of 

 ' raddle' had been found in the Creswell Caves, and that "he had no 

 doubt that the palseoliths raddled themselves". Prequent mention 

 of the use of this material will be found in that instructive work, 

 Sollas' Ancient Hunters. An interesting point about this find is 

 tliat it indicates traflic at that early period between distant places, 

 because this mineral does not occur anywhere near, but must have 

 been brought from a great distance. At present it is mostly obtained 

 from the Mendip Hills in Somersetshire. 



8. On a heap of gravel brought to repair the line at Lord's Bridge 

 Station on the Cambridge and Bedford Railway, I found the piece of 



^ See an exhaustive paper on the Pleistocene Mollusca of the neighbourhood 

 of Cambridge, by Mrs. McKenny Hughes, this Mag., 1888, p. 191. 



