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men (Plate III., fig. 13) shows about fifty notches over a 

 length of one and a half inches ; it is notched on both edges. 



Another (Plate III., fig. 15) measures two inches in length, 

 and has over thirty notches, while the last (Plate III., fig. 14) 

 is a much less delicate specimen with only ten notches. 



The specimen (Plate III., fig. 10) consisting of transparent 

 yellow flint may also be a saw with the notches worn down. 



These saws were doubtless used in the manufacture of 

 arrow shafts and in fashioning small wooden and bone 

 articles. 



"Pigmy" Implements (Plate III., fig. 12). — One very char- 

 acteristic specimen of this type was found, three-quarters of 

 an inch long and scarcely more than one-eighth wide, formed 

 out of a narrow flake of white translucent flint delicately 

 worked along one edge only, the other edge being the sharp 

 edge of the flake. Both ends are square and untouched. 

 This is the only specimen found on this site. It is difficult to 

 see what it can have been used for. The purpose of these 

 implements is still problematical; various uses are suggested, 

 such as surgical operations, trepanning, tattooing, etc., or they 

 may in some cases have been simply borers. 



Scrapers. — About forty scrapers have been found up to the 

 present time, generally of small size, some of the minute so- 

 called thumb scrapers being only half an inch in width. 

 Plate IV., fig. 7, is a very small specimen. The largest 

 measures if -in. in width. They are generally formed of thick 

 flakes, whose under surface has a concavity in the direction of 

 its greatest length, and which would give a suitable scraping 

 edge when trimmed to a semicircular form. 



They are very variable in shape and material, nearly all the 

 forms recorded from Britain occurring. I have photographed 

 a few of the more characteristic specimens, Plate IV., figs. 1-9. 

 Figs. 1-4 are described as semicircular or thumb-flints, fig. 6 

 is a flat circular specimen, figs. 8 and 9 as " duck-billed " or 

 " kite-shaped " scrapers. They are better illustrated by photo- 

 graphs or sketches than by descriptions. 



