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W. BOYD DAWKINS ON THE MAMMALIA AND 



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a tyne, which has been ground down to a sharp point (fig. 1), simi- 

 lar to many of those found in the caves of the Dordogne, 

 and figured in the ' Reliquiae Aquitanicse.' It .may have 

 formed part of a pin such as that figured by Mr. John 

 Evans from Kent's Hole (Ancient Stone Implements, 

 fig. 406). Another pointed tyne may also have been 

 used for the same purpose as fig. I ; but the marks of 

 Man's handiwork are not so decided. A fragment of 

 the base of a Reindeer- antler from the cave-earth may 

 perhaps have been cut and perforated by the hand of 

 Man. Another is a triangular sharp-pointed arrow-head 

 or piercer (?), formed of one of the plates of an Elephant's 

 molar, probably of a milk-molar. Its surface is highly 

 polished, and it has been formed by the loss of the enamel 

 and the grinding of the surface of the dentine until it as- 

 sumed its present form*. A loose plate of the milk-molar 

 of a Mammoth was also found in the cave. 



12. Implements of Quartzite and Ironstone. 

 The implements of quartzite and ironstone, eighty-six in number 

 (irrespective of splinters), belong to well-known types in other regions, 

 which are generally fashioned out of flint. They have all been made 





fig. 2. 



Fig. 3. 



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Quartzite flake, X ^. Cave-earth. 

 a. Section. 



Quartzite hache, X i- Cave-earth, a. Section. 



* This singular specimen is considered by Mr. Evans to be non-artificial. 

 After a further examination of it in the British Museum, Mr. Davies and myself 

 cannot look upon it otherwise than as expressed in the text. 



