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made, cliips struck off in their fabrication, flakes, knives, 

 scrapers* of at least three forms, drills or awls, arrow- 

 heads, and a few stone hammers, with great numbers of 

 broken fragments. t All the implements were small, 

 for the most part very rudely formed, though some were 

 rather more finely finished (see fig. 4). 



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Fig. 4. — Types of Neolithic flint implements. 



Three burial places were met with in this area, with 

 fragments of decomposed bones in rude cists ; also broken 

 pottery, ashes with traces of calcined and decomposed 



'+ In regard to the separation of stone implements into axes, celts, 

 lances, knives, scrapers, awls, &c, it is important to note that Dr. W. 

 E. Eoth, writing on the Ethnography of Queensland, says that the 

 modern savage certainly does not recognise these fine distinctions. 



In the case of the earlier and ruder forms at least it may well have 

 been that the shape of the detached or chosen fragment was more or 

 less accidental, and it was probably used indifferently for various 

 purposes as was found convenient. 



f Yn Lioar Manninagh, I., 2, 90, 131, 212. 



