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dipping deeper on the right side near the point. This may have been mounted 

 in a shaft as a spear or dagger or, perhaps, as some sort of pick. Owing to 

 the coarse chipping on the side, there is no cutting edge. There is shown in 

 No. 46 a flake considerably thinner than those last described. The edges are 

 all neatly dressed, but in theii- present state they are not cutting edges, but 

 would be suitable for scraping. It was found at Culbane. No. 47 shows one 

 of those flakes which has the side hewn away to near the midrib. When the 

 sides are removed, we have a stout triangular implement, with the bulb-face 

 as one side of the triangle, and the dressed sides the other two. "We could 

 find a regular series of flakes from those having the edges only slightly 

 dressed to No. 47, showing the sides dressed into the midrib. A section of 

 this implement is shown. It was found in Aughnahoy on the Co. Antrim 

 side of the Bann, near Portglenone. 



There are various flakes of irregular form that have been turned to use, as 

 we see by the dressing along the edges. No. 48 represents a thin knife-like 

 flake that has the edges neatly dressed towards the ridge-side. It was, no 

 doubt, used as a knife. It was found at Culbane. No. 49 is a flake of peculiar 

 form. The bulb is at the left side, and the long projection to the top is a wing 

 of the flake. Along the base, which now appears as its right side, it is dressed 

 into scraper-like edges. It was found near Portglenone. No. 50 shows a thick 

 flake with its three sides all dressed to scraper-like edges. It is formed of 

 reddish-brown flint, and has a sort of glazed patina, like many flakes or 

 implements that come out of the Bann. It was found at Gortgole. There is 

 represented in No. 51 a thin flake of irregular form ; the bulb is at the top on 

 the underside, but there is uo midrib on the side shown. There is a piece of 

 the outer crust of the nodule from which it was derived, appearing round the 

 base of the flake, and that part is dressed to a scraping-edge. The right and 

 left sides are also dressed to scraper-like edges, but both are slightly concave. 

 This implement and No. 49 are similar to the broad scraper described as a 

 racloir by French archaeologists. It was found at Culbane. No. 56 is a 

 doubled-edged scraper, but also dressed for scraping along the side-edges. 

 The strong, deeply-dressed scraping-edges are, however, at the two ends. It 

 also was found at Culbane. Fig. 57 shows a scraper of the beaked kind made 

 out of a heavy flake very thick at the scraping- edge. It was found at 

 Aughnahoy, near Portglenone. These few scrapers that have been described 

 fairly represent those found at various places along the river. 



Nos. 52, 53, 54, and 55 show four thin flakes that have rather a knife-like 

 character. No. 53 is dressed with rather delicate flaking iuto knife-like edges 

 on both right and left sides. It was found in the Bann at Coleraine. No. 52 

 was dressed over the greater part of the back with thin flaking running close 



