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inches, lacking an eighth, and was noticeable particularly for the 
median ridge running its whole length and from this ridge the 
Specimen was very regularly bevelled to the sides. The notches at 
the base were large and deep, and the stem narrower than the base 
of the blade. The fourth example of the spearheads was like the 
preceding but about one third shorter. The remaining spearhead 
was more interesting, in that it nearly approached the true leaf- 
shaped pattern; a blunt barb-like widening at the base making it 
vary from that form a little, the stem or base itself being rounded. 
Before noticing the collection of knives, as we propose calling a 
series of implements contained in this “ find,” we will briefly allude 
to three othe specimens, that seem different in some respects from 
any of the above. One is a roughly chipped implement of agate, 
three inches in length, and a trace over two in greatest width. 
The base is blunt, being the natural surface of the pebble from 
which the specimen was chipped ; the edges, although crooked, are 
sharp, and the point well defined and still acute. The specimen 
itself suggests a small lancehead, an unfinished. knife, or a small 
~ hatchet, that might have been used to split long bones, that the 
marrow might be secured. It is much less finished and finely flaked 
than the jasper lanceheads we have so frequently met with on the 
surface and in graves. The second of these three specimens is a 
beautifully chipped jasper specimen, that appears to have been a 
‘ong stemmed spear, which, being broken near the base, has had the 
fractured end carefully rechipped. As the specimen now is, it is 
a triangular “ flint,” two and five-eighths inches long, and one and 
one-half inches wide. It may be looked upon as a knife made 
from a spear, we suppose ; inasmuch as so many, approaching it 
in character, were found at the same time. The third specimen 
is a rudely chipped oval knife (?) blade, noticeable as having been 
made of white quartz ; a mineral not often used except for arrow- 
heads, 
We have now to consider a remarkable series of hornstone 
implements, forty-two in number, which have much of interest 
Connected with them. As a class, they may be said to approach 
the flint dagger blades figured by Mr. Evans, on page 315 of his 
Work on the Stone Implements of Great Britain. They can be 
described as “chipped flints,” with square bases, well defined 
Points, and slightly convex sides, averaging three and one-half 
inches in length by one inch in breadth. Six of them have convex 
