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6. A roughly-made Implement, quadrate in outline, with 

 a strong "beak" at one angle. Size, 4 in. x 3 in. Under-side 

 flat with vesicular-like depressions on what appears a natural 

 plane of fracture. Upper-face flatfish and irregularly flaked. 

 Secondary chipping on two-thirds of the circumference, ending 

 on one side in a strong protuberance or 'beak." Colour, a 

 very dark brown — darkest on the worked edge. Patina well 

 developed, more particularly so on the chipped edge. Loc, 

 Stuart Creek (not figured). [Compare ix., figs. 27-30.] 



7. Naturally fractured Stone utilized for making Hollow 

 Scraper*. Size, 3ij in. x 3 in. Roughly quadrilateral in out- 

 line. Fiat underneath; irregular on upper-surface. Hollow 

 scraper ending in stumpy beak on left edge and a shallow 

 double scraper on the right. Basal edge thick and unworked. 

 Reddish stain; edges, where worked, are of a lighter colour. 

 Glaze, slight. Loc, Macumba (not figured). 



8. Cutting Tool and Holloiv Scraper. Size, 3 in. x 2| in. 

 A fine-grained siliceous rock (near porcellanite). Under-side 

 curved and smooth but gives no evidence of "bulb.'" The 

 fragment has probably been flaked off a larger mass by sun- 

 heat. Upper-surface irregularly chipped, showing ridges 

 bifurcating from the basal edge. Secondary chippings follow 

 the edge in an almost complete circle, and a strongly developed 

 hollow scraper is formed on the right edge. Colour, reddish- 

 brown, rather lighter on the edges. Patina well developed. 

 Loc, Stuart Creek. This implement gives evidence of much 

 wear, in which the divisional lines between the respective chips 

 are almost ■wiped out. It has the appearance of age, and may 

 have been worn by drifting sand (pi. xii., fig. 2). Resembles 

 a common eolithic type. 



9. Knife and Hollow Scrajjer. Size, 3| in. x 2h in. 

 Constructed from a fine-grained, siliceous sandstone. Under- 

 side smooth by conchoidal fracture but without a clearly- 

 defined bulb. Upper, or convex, side chipped to a fairly 

 uniform outline. The right-hand edge is very finely chipped 

 to a straight cutting edge, and the left-hand edge is similarly 

 chipped, forming a concavo-convex, crescentic cutting edge. 

 To the right of the point, or beak, a hollow scraper has been 

 formed by a deep notch. Colour, slightly reddish. Glaze, dull. 

 Loc, Stuart Creek (pi. xv., fig. 1). 



10. Implement nearly circular in outline with prominent 

 point, or beak. Diameter, 2\ in. On the under-side there is 

 a very distinct bulb of percussion with conchoidal curviture. 

 The upper-side has been formed by seven well-defined and 

 symmetrical flakings, each of which has been struck off by a 

 single stroke. One of these occupies the crown, and this apical 

 fracture forms the centre around which the six other flakes 



