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proved to demonstration by the late Mons. E. Lartet, who both made 
bone needles and bored eyes in them by means of flint tools alone.”’ * 
Fig. 7 (No. 1929, Cav. Journ., and Fig. 406, Evans,) is that of 
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Fig. 7. 
a well-formed bone pin found January 3rd, 1867, in the fourth 
foot-level of Cave-earth—the greatest depth to which it has been 
excavated—in immediate contact with an unworn crown of a molar 
tooth of a rhinoceros. Vertically over them there lay, in ascending 
order, four feet of Cave-earth; then the Black Band with its pro-- 
fusion of flint tools, and remains of the hyzna and other Cave 
Mammals; over this the Granular Stalagmitic Floor, 20 inches 
thick, perfectly intact, and continuous in all directions; this was 
surmounted by the Black Mould; and the whole was crowned with 
large blocks of limestone, cemented with carbonate of lime into a 
firm mass, which reached the roof and almost completely separated 
the Vestibule from the rest of the Cavern. The pin is well made, 
has a distinct head, from immediately behind which it tapers off to 
a sharp point. It is almost perfectly round, and has a considerable 
polish, the latter being in all probability the result of having been 
constantly used to fasten the skin dress of its owner. 
Fig. 8 (No. 2206, Cav. Journ., and Fig. 404, Evans, ) represents 
a bone ‘‘ harpoon” found with a flint flake and a bone apparently 
cut artificially, in the first or uppermost foot-level of Cave-earth, 









beneath the Black Band, which in its turn was covered with the 
Granular Stalagmitic Floor from 12 to 20 inches thick, and over 
this again was the Black Mould with its pre-Roman objects. When 
dug out it was, as at present, in two pieces, one almost, and the 
other completely, enveloped in stalagmite. Indeed, the latter 
portion was regarded, and packed away with the entire “ find,’’ as 
a small pipe or stem of stalagmite, and the discovery of its true cha- 
racter was made November 28th, 1868, under circumstances precisely 
* “ Ancient Stone Implements,” p. 461. 
