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ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES 
INCHES 
Fig. 2. Implement from Camperdown. x f. 
Although no other example of a blade implement as large as 
this has been found in Victoria, it cannot be regarded as a 
mere chance production, as it exhibits a specialized technique 
which calls for considerable practice and skill. The flake has 
been deliberately made long and triangular in section by strik- 
ing it from a prepared core from which preliminary flakes 
had been removed. The central ridge of the implement is the 
junction of the scars of two preliminary flakes. This tech- 
nique is well known elsewhere (e.g., the quartzite flake knives 
and spearheads of Central and Northern Australia), but it is 
known in Victoria only in microlithic implements and, very 
rarely, in flake implements up to about 3 inches in length. 
The size of the Camperdown implement and the skill shown 
in the primary flaking are so striking that they would seem 
to indicate the existence of a variety of stone industry in 
Western Victoria of which it is the only known product. 
Large Tanged Stone Implement from New South Wales. 
Since the last volume of these Memoirs was issued another 
example of the “bicycle saddle” implements described therein 
has been sent to the Museum for examination by Mr. J. White- 
ley, of Oberon, New South Wales. It was found by Mr. Cyril 
Evans, at The Meadows (6 miles NE. of Oberon) while 
ploughing newly cleared land. 
