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of an adze with a slot in the lower end for the insertion of a 

 stone blade, or celt. The celt is missing, as also the wooden 

 handle wherewith the centre part of the block of bone was 

 attached. 



It is a heavy bone of a dark-brown colour, probably of a 

 whale, t4"5cm long, the lowest half having the greatest breadth 

 15 cm) and thickness (2"5 cm), while the centre part, which pro- 

 jects like a shaft up from the bevelled shoulder which runs 

 almost the whole way round is of lesser breadth (3'5 cm) and 

 thickness (2 cm). The upper part of this shaft again is formed 

 like a broad flat head, which expands out on either side in the 

 latitudinal plane of the shaft. 



The back of the lower half of the implement (fig. 46 b) is 

 semicylindrical, being rounded on one side edge which thus 

 merges into the front side, while on the other edge (fig. 46 c) 

 it is marked off at the bottom from the front side by a blunt 

 edge which expands upwards into a distinct side surface. The 

 back of the centre part (the shaft) is flat and separated by two 

 sharp edges from the lateral surfaces, thus merging by imper- 

 ceptible gradations (fig. 46 a) into the front side over a double 

 row of facets, cut in the longitudinal direction of the shaft; the 

 cross section of this part of the implement is a rectangle, in 

 which two of the angles tend rather towards the obtuse. This 

 part of the bone has unfortunately been severely damaged by 

 the elements, so that a large splinter has flaked off". 



The upper head-like part of the shaft (one side of which 

 has crumbled away) seems to have had a convex back like the 

 lower piece, but an oblique cut (or the natural form of the 

 bone) has deprived one half of the side of its curvature and 

 made it flat. As the front side, which otherwise keeps 

 uniformly flat over the whole piece, has here also been bevelled, 

 the back and front sides meet at the top in a comparatively thin, 

 slightly curved edge. 



The lower part of the front side has an aperture, the 



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