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The “ round-pointed lanceolate implement (so named bv Mr. 
Evans) found in the cavern has a curious history. It is torme 
of two pieces of flint, discovered some distance a P a ^ and 
fitting so completely together as to show that they ^are parts o f 
the same stone ; it is, however, yet incomplete as . an ^ 
and the part required to perfect the form 1 
be lost. The butt end appears to have been, in the first p , 
described by Sir C. Lyell as a “core from which 
had been struck off on every side ; leading 
that the flake knives had been made in the cavern, 
flint does not appear in the report as a rejected coie, but as the 
most important part of a lance-head ; the metamorphose being 
ta thi-er completed, it is no» said to - resemble oae type 
of the pointed instruments from the valley gravels. + The 
claim of such rough flints to be implements I have examined 
1U The “ remarkably symmetrical scraper ” This flint is figured 
by Mr. Evans, said to have been found in the cavern, and e- 
scribed as having been “dexterously trimmed into a horseshoe 
form ” and “well adapted to have been held in the hand. $ It has, 
however one blot on its evidence as a witness in this case, it wa 
nolflundZ the cavern ; || nor is it now with the flints placed in 
the Museum. Of this flint Mr. Pengelly says : ‘ The following 
is the history, or rather so much of it as is known to me of 
the specimen in question After finding flint tools m the 
cavern, search was made from time to time on various parts of 
the hill, especially when and where the surface was in Progress 
of being broken up, for the purpose of ascertaining whether 
any such specimens were to be met with there as well « 
within the cavern. This search being by no means fruitless, 
I sent one of the specimens thus met with to the Cavern om- 
mittee and with it the following statement: No. 134, June 
3rd 1859, found on Windmill Hill, about 44 feet above the 
cavern level, in a thin layer of gravel lying beneath the soil and 
on the limestone rock, one flint. A sample of the giavel m 
which it was found was also for warded. . 
This important statement, first made public in July, 1874, ex- 
cludes this symmetrical flint from the cavern specimens, 
also confirms the statement which I had previously made, that 
* Antiquity of Man, 1st cd., p. 100. 
1 «Ttawb Transactions of VuUoru, 
vol. viii. p. 14. 
$ Ancient Stone Implements,^. 4VO. 
|| Transactions of Royal Society , vol. clxm. p. 551. bee loot-note. 
Ti Transactions of Devon Association, vol. vi. p. < .3 >. 
