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MUSEUM NOTES. 
Neolithic. 
No. 1965.—Coloured cast of the first stone 
implement discovered in Borneo. The original was 
found by Mr. A. H. Everett embedded at the bottom of 
a bed of river-gravel exposed in a section on the left 
bank of the Siniawan River (cf. Proc. Roy. Soc. No. 203, 
1880, pp. 6, 7); this is now preserved in the Pitt-Rivers 
Museum, Oxford. The cast was presented to the 
Sarawak Museum by Dr. A. C. Haddon, f.r.s., February 
17th, 1900. 
No. 1526. — Large, roughly triangular or pear- 
shaped, one edge roughly sharpened, large chip out of 
one end (furthest from the sharpened edge) as if to 
facilitate a good grasp or to fit into a handle. Greatest 
length 192 mm., greatest breadth 125 mm. 
No. 1527.—Slightly smaller and less in thickness 
than No. 1526, roughly oval in shape. Two-thirds of one 
long side are chipped to an edge and sharpened by 
rubbing into quite a good edge. Probably a scraper. 
Greatest length 155 mm., greatest breadth 115 mm. 
No. 1528.—Small, oval in shape, surface beauti¬ 
fully smoothed. One half rounded and evenly edged, 
the other half bluntly rounded, possibly for fitting to 
wooden shaft- This specimen shows finer workmanship 
than the previous two. Greatest length 76 mm., greatest 
breadth 51 mm. 
These three stone implements were found during 
river-wall excavations in Kuching; the actual site w r as 
the bed of a former stream which passed through a 
village built in the neighbourhood of the present 
vegetable market. 
Mr. j. B. Scrivenor, Government Geologist, Kuala 
Lumpur, L.M.S., gives the following descriptions:— 
“...there is a great similarity between the 
“ rock material and that commonly used for stone 
“ implements in the Peninsula. It is fine grained 
“ siliceous rock containing angular fragments of quartz, 
“iron-oxides, biotite and a very fine flaky micaceous 
“ mineral which pervades the whole. It appears to be 
“an altered silty deposit: the toughness of the rock 
“is to be attributed to metamorphism.” (Reprinted 
from Report on the Sarawak Museum for 1906, by 
J. Hewitt, p. 12.) 
