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Voluta, probably Voluta indica, while cockles (Arca sp.) claws 
and others were also present. 
A number of pieces of iron-oxide ruddle were unearthed 
at varying depths, these pieces in several cases showing very 
distinct signs of having been ground down against a stone 
or other hard surface. 
A quantity of round grinding-stones and several grind- 
ing-slabs, probably for use with the former were also discov- 
owing to the constant use of the grinding-stones upon 
them. On two stones hollows are to be seen on both sides. 
The excavations yielded a new type of pounding-stcne 
-—for such I take it to be. These stones, which are fairly 
numerous at all depths, are of various sizes and of different 
kinds of rock. They are water-worn pebbles naturally 
and index finger when grasped in the hand. The majority 
of the specimens show bruising at the edges, and I am 
inclined to believe that they were largely used for breaking 
the bones of animals killed in the chase previous to extraction 
of the marrow. The sides of some of the smoother stones 
are coloured with ruddle towards their ends, showing that 
they were used as grinding-stones for rubbing up this pigment 
(probably with water) as well. 
small neolithic-culture stone axe-head was found 
in the first excavation at a depth of from eight to nine feet. 
This implement, though unmistakable, is extremely rough— 
a piece of black stone roughly chipped to shape and ground, 
on either surface, towards the cutting edge only. 
Flakes and roughly dressed pieces of the same black 
stone as that of the above-mentioned stone axe-head were 
common and, judging by the finding of a single polished 
implement must be ascribed to a neolithic culture. The 
wooden stamp. ; 
Smoother pottery, approximating more or less to that 
