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France, at Solutre ; borers and awls, in some cases worn by 
use, as well as small oval forms bearing a close resemblance to 
the carefully chipped stonecutters used by the Eskimos for 
Fig. 11. 
Fig. 12. 
POINT MADE OF ANTLER (full size). 
Cave earth. Robin Hood Cave. 
planing wood. Some of the flakes had 
obviously been let into a handle of wood, 
or some other perishable material, which 
protected one edge while the other was 
completely worn away. Articles of bone 
and antler were also met with — bone 
awls, a well-finished bone needle, and 
cylindrical rods of antler, which may 
have be6n portions of the points of 
spears” (figs. 11, 12). One of the most 
interesting discoveries made in this part 
of the floor of the Robin Hood cave was 
a fragment of rib having engraved upon 
it the head and forepart of a horse 
(fig. 13). This is the only instance in 
which a trace of what we may term 
Palaeolithic high art has been met with 
in this country, and it is of extreme 
interest, as correlating these caves with 
those of the Continent in which similar 
works have been found ; engravings of 
the reindeer, of the arctic fox, and even 
of the mammoth, as has been observed, 
having been obtained from the caves of 
France, Switzerland, and Belgium. We thus have brought before 
us in the Creswell caves a most important chapter in the history 
of early man, a sequence of implement-bearing beds showing 
a progress in civilization such as has “ not been observed in 
any other series of caverns in any part of the world.” We 
learn that even the Palseolithic age of man has its periods: 
ROD OF REINDEER ANTLER. 
Church Hole Cave. 
