FLINT IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN KENT’S CAVERN. 357 
similar to those described in the case of the ‘‘needle.” Though 
broken, it is very nearly perfect, and is barbed on one edge only. 
Another ‘‘harpoon” (No. 1970, Cav. Journ., and Fig. 405, 
Evans,) similarly barbed, was found with 16 flint flakes and a flint 
core, in the Black Band, January 18, 1867. It is less perfect and 
has seen more service than No. 2206. 
Fig. 9 (No. 2282, Cav. Journ., and Fig. 403, Evans,) is a repre- 
sentation of a third 
bone ‘‘harpoon,”’ 
which differs from 
those just mentioned 
in being barbed on Fig. 9. t 
two opposite sides, the barbs being also opposite, not alternate. It 
was found March 18th, 1867, in the second foot-level of Cave-carth, 
and over this was the usual succession of deposits found in the 
Vestibule. Like all bones found in the Cave-earth, the “ harpoon” 
when applied to the tongue, firmly adheres to it; in other words, 
it has the condition which, from the spot it occupied, might have 
been expected. The striated marks of the tool with which it was 
scraped into form are still distinctly visible in places. ‘‘ Harpoons,” 
both doubly and singly barbed, of precisely the same character, have 
been found in the Cave of La Madelaine, in the Dordogne, France, 
where they usually consist of reindeer horn, which was not impro- 
' bably the case in the Kent’s Hole specimens also. Implements of 
this kind have been found in numerous localities on the Continent. 
There was also found in the second foot-level of Cave-earth, in 
the Vestibule, February 4th, 1867, a canine tooth of a badger, the 
fang of which had been reduced to a wedge-like form, and per- 
forated obliquely, as if for the purpose of being strung. The 
overlying Stalagmitic Floor had been broken by the early explorers, 
but the Superintendents of the investigation now in progress have 
no doubt that the soil in which the tooth lay was intact, and that 
the specimen may be taken as an indication that the Cave-men of 
the Hyzenine period occupied themselves in making ornaments as 
well as objects of mere utility. 
_ The implements found in the Breccia—the Ursine, or so far as 
is at present known, the most ancient of the Cavern periods—were 
exclusively of flint and chert. They were much more rudely 
formed, more massive, less symmetrical in outline, and made by 
operating, not on flakes, but directly on nodules, of which portions 
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