MAMMALIA. 7 



away in trimming the flint-nodules to shape, and among Table-ease 

 them is a broken jaw of a woolly rhinoceros, which may *• 



possibly represent part of the workman's food. There are 

 also completed implements. One example was accidentally 

 broken before it was finished, and so thrown away. Mr. 

 Spurrell recovered the two pieces, and also the numerous 

 flakes which were struck off in the fashioning of it. With 



Pig. 1. — Block of Flint from Crayford, Kent, broken by Palaeolithic Man 

 in making an implement (A), which was never finished because it 

 was accidentally fractured ; one-third nat. size. (Spurrell Collection, 

 Table-case 1.) 



great patience and skill he replaced all the flakes, thus 

 restoring the flint-nodule to the original form which it had 

 when Palaeolithic man selected it for his work (Fig. 1). 



The finest and most varied Palaeolithic stone implements 

 (flint or chert) are found with the bones of the Pleistocene 

 mammals in the higher layers of the caverns. They denote 

 a more advanced race of men, which Professor Boyd Dawkins 



Table-case 

 1. 



