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procured from it were counted, there were found to be two rude arrow 
or spear-heads, shown in PI. xxiri., figs. 1 IJand 12 ; 21 scrapers and other 
dressed implements, all of which, with the exception of three or four 
poor duplicates, are figured in Pis. xxii. and xxiii. ; 44 cores, 277 flakes 
and 13 hammer- stones; also a few pieces of haematite which had been 
scraped or rubbed; 14 pieces of plain and 4 pieces of ornamented 
pottery. In addition to these there was a coarse implement of deer's 
horn, rudely pointed, which is figured as l^o. 17, Plate xxiii. It was 
perfect when found, but was so soft that the point was accidentally 
broken or rubbed off. There were also bones and teeth of various 
animals, and sea-shells; but these latter were very fragile and easily 
broken. With the exception of the shells and about 100 of the 
poorest class of flakes everything found in the layer was brought away. 
In the British Museum there is exhibited a piece of the old floor of 
the dwellers in the Eock Shelters of the Dordogne, with the imple- 
ments, flakes, bones, and other remains in their original position. It 
is a very instructive object-lesson. The floor at Whitepark Bay is not 
cemented together, and therefore a block of it, like that from the Rock 
Shelters, cannot be brought away ; but I believe that the implements, 
cores, flakes, hammer- stones, pottery, teeth, and bones, as excavated 
from the old surface, laid out together for inspection, would give a 
better idea of the old surface layer at Whitepark Bay than any 
description could do. The bones are broken and split, but they are 
so fragile that they could not be extracted without further breakages. 
I believe, however, that there will be no dijfficulty in distinguishing 
between the old fractured edges and the newer ones caused by digging. 
The implements are of a coarse and rather peculiar nature. The 
number of side scrapers, as compared with the commoner kinds, is 
considerable. Fig. 10 is almost pointed, but the point is dressed as a 
scraper ; figs. 2 and 7, Plate xxii., are axe-like ; fig. 3, in same 
Plate, has no dressing except the teething on the edge, and has 
likely been used as a saw. One piece of pottery is figured to show 
ornamentation (see fig. 15, Plate xxiii.). The flakes are very poor 
and unshapely; but this may arise from the best having been pre- 
viously selected for scrapers and other implements. I had the bones 
which were extracted, along with the implements and other objects 
described above, examined by Mr. E. T. ^N'ewton, P.G.S., P.Z.S., 
Palaeontologist of the Geological Survey, London ; and he found they 
belonged to Bos longifrons, Cervus elaphus, sheep or goat, pig, fox, the 
great auk, small form of goose, small gull and cod. There were also 
some bovine teeth, which seemed to be large for the long-faced ox. 
