UNCOMMON TYPE OF STONE IMPLEMENT. 
where the natural surface remains. There are no signs of 
hammer dressing or grinding. Possibly it is in an unfinished 
state. 
Weight, 7 lb. 12 oz. Length, 12.7 inches. 
Australian Museum, No. El 1947. 
6. Locality unknown. Almost certainly from Queensland and 
perhaps from Olsen’s Caves, Rockhampton District. Fig. 6, 
Plate IX. 
The drawing and description of this implement have been 
supplied by Mr. H. A. Longman, Director, and Professor H. C. 
Richards, Hon. Mineralogist of the Queensland Museum. 
Basic volcanic rock, probably a normal fine-grained olivine 
basalt very similar in type to much of the late Tertiary basic 
volcanic material of Eastern Australia. The specimen is not 
patinated and appears relatively recent in comparison with 
No. 4. The surface is ground. 
Weight, 3 lb. 4 oz. Length, 7.9 inches. 
Queensland Museum, No. Q.E. 1234. 
7. From near Brisbane. Fig. 7, Plates IX and XI. 
The Museum is indebted to Mr. H. J. Braunholtz of the 
Department of Ceramics and Ethnology of the British Museum 
for the following description of this implement, and also for the 
photograph, Plate XI, from which the figure on Plate IX has 
been made. 
Apparently limestone, fairly hard, grey on the surface and 
white where chipped. Roughly pitted all over, presumably by 
hammer-dressing, and weathered. One side is slightly convex 
and the other practically flat, probably having been ground. 
The edge is not sharp but appears to have been partly ground 
down also. Found on high land near Brisbane and given to 
the British Museum by B. H. Purcell, Esq., in 1897. 
Length, 10.8 inches. Maximum thickness, 3 inches. 
British Museum, No. 97-652. 
The New Guinea Implements. 
Figs. 8-10, Plate IX ; figs. 9, 10, Plate XI. 
Being of a more suitable size, these were presumably axes. 
The chipped obsidian implement No. 8 is unique, and the other 
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