FOSSIL FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 
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done to a rib of a Megaceros liiherniciis, and attributed it to the point of the 
antler of another deer ; but now there seems more probability that the injury 
in question might have been effected by one of these so-called " celts." _ M. 
Lartet has also given us accounts of fossd mammalian bones bearing incisions 
and marks made by apparently blunt weapons, such as would have been 
produced by these flmt-implements. 
Fig. 15. 
-Stone Hatchet, with Handle, from New Caledonia, South Pacific Ocean. Size : length 
with handle, 19 inches ; head of hatchet, 10 inches. 
We have figured (fig. 15) a stone adze from New Caledonia, to show by a 
comparison with its form that the fossil implements could not have been 
similarly lashed on and used for the purposes for which such instruments are 
adapted, and which thus affords a negative evidence in favour of the idea of 
their being rude spear-heads. 
Besides the larger spear-shaped and pear-shaped weapons, there were smaller 
and flatter flints, of an oval shape, which it is thought were used as sling-stones 
or as axes. The first of our examples of this kind (fig. IG) was found in the 
Fig. 16. — Small Flint Instrument from the 
Gravel of Amiens. Size, 4 inches by 
2f inches. 
Fig. 17.— Small Flint Instrument from Gravel 
at Hoxne, Suffolk. Size, 4 inches by 
by 2^ inches. 
drift-gravel of Amiens, by M. Boucher de Perthes; the second (fig. 17) at 
Hoxne, in 1797, by Mr. Frere ; the latter is preserved m the collection of the 
Society of Antiquaries. 
