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Fig. 11. 



acute angle with the other." The angle made by this edge with the 

 major axis of the flake is 38° in two specimens, and 31° in a third. 

 In the second (fig. 10) both ends have been slanted off, and the 

 curved edge of the flake has been worn, while the straight 

 one is sharp. The unworn edge has probably been in- 

 serted into a handle of some sort or another. Three of 

 the first kind were met with, and one of the second. 



A drill, or piercer, is represented in fig. 11, 

 formed out of a small flint flake. It is of similar 

 shape to those figured from the caves of Perigord 

 in the ' Reliquiae Aquitanicas.' The manufacture 

 of implements is proved to have gone on in the 

 cave by the presence of large numbers of flakes and 

 a few chipping- blocks. 



The general facies of the whole collection of 

 implements, and their association with the extinct 

 mammalia in the cave-earth and breccia, prove them 



to be of Palaeolithic age. 



Flint borer. Full 

 size. Breccia. 



Table of distribution of traces of Man in the Robin- Hood Cave. 



Human milk-incisor 



Pointed antler (fig. 1) , 



Arrow-head ? 



Worked quartz ite pebbles 

 Quartzite hache (fig. 2) . . 



Quartzite chopper 



Quartzite flake (fig. 3) 



Quartzite implement (fig. 4) 



Ironstone implement (fig. 5) 



Quartzite hammer-stone? 



Worked flints 



Lanceolate flint flake (fig. 6) 



Double-pointed lanceolate flake (fig. 7). 



Flint scraper (fig. 8) 



Flint "scrapers' 



Trimmed flakes 



Worn „ type of fig. 9 



Worn „ „ fig. 11 , 



Flint-borer (fig. 13) 



Chipping-blocks 



PS Q 



pq 



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5 



267 



2 



2 



11 

 2 

 2 

 1 



1 

 2 



Black Roman pottery 



Samian ware 



Mediaeval sherds 



