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with these barbed weapon-heads that similar needles have been 

 fonnd in the Bruniquel Cave by the Tieomte de Lastic. and in the 

 rock-shelters of the same place, so successfully explored by M. Bran, 

 of Montanban. They hare been fonnd in similar association in the 

 lower cave of Massat (Ariege). 



From the care of Teyrier at the foot of Monnt Saleve, which 

 belongs, like those of Les Eyzies. La Madelaine, &c. to the artistic 

 portion of the Beindeer period, and where the antlers of this rumi- 

 nant have been fonnd having figures of animals and plants engraved 

 upon them ; needles have also been obtained, one of which appears 

 to be made of ivory. 



In the older caves, like that of Aurignac (Haute Garonne), Les 

 Fees (Allier), and the Gorge d'Enfer, where remains of the rein- 

 deer are less abundant, and at the same time the Quaternary fauna 

 is more completely represented by extinct species, eyed needles have 

 not as yet been met with. Simple awls, made of bone or ivory, 

 seem to have served in their stead, whilst the modern barbed type 

 of weapon-head is not found, but in its place the older lanceolate 

 form. 



Eyed needles have been discovered in the Swiss-Lake habitations 

 and elsewhere; but in general these needles, though belonging to 

 times comparatively more recent, are far from being as well shaped 

 as those of the artistic epoch of the Beindeer age. 



Discovery of a P re-historic Dwelling on the Coast of Hadding- 

 tonshire. — A short note by Mr. J. TV. Laidlay. F.S.A.. F.G.S., on 

 a pre-historic dwelling and kitchen-midden, discovered by him on a 

 small rocky peninsula near Seaehn on the coast of Haddingtonshire,* 

 is of great interest as deciding against the theory, put forward so 

 ably by Mr. Archibald Geikie, and subsequently by ^Ir. T. Smyth, 

 that the shores of the Firth of Forth had risen at least 25 feet 

 since the time of the Roman occupation.! 



The rock in question, situated about three miles east of North 

 Berwick, on the south side of the Firth of Forth, is isolated at 

 spring tides, but is at other times separated by the sea from the 

 mainland. The remains found upon the rock were, first, the founda- 

 tions of an ancient building, consisting of stones selected apparently 

 froin the beach, and joined together only with earth or mud ; being 

 two or three courses in height, but concealed until recently by a 

 thick coating of turf; secondly, a large quantity of rude hand- 

 made pottery in fragments, a number of implements of bone, such 

 as needles, arrow-heads, combs, knives, chisels, &c, very similar in 

 point of manufacture to those from the Swiss-Lake dwellings of the 

 Stone period ; thirdly, a vast quantity of bones of oxen (exhibiting 



* See the 'Geological Magazine/ vol vii.. June, 1870., p. 270. 

 t See ibid., vol. ii., 1865. p. 181. 



