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70 a well-formed sewing-needle (No. 5), and lance points of bone (Nos. 3 and 4), together with portions of reindeer-horn cut and sawn for various purposes. The most noteworthy object is a so-called bâton de commandement, ornamented on both sides (Nos. 1 and 2). Among the fauna the most common animal represented was the reindeer. From these facts it is clear that the station falls under the Magdalénien epoch.

No deposits, glacial or otherwise, covered these rocks; consequently the station was inhabited by man subsequent to the melting of the ice, and long posterior to the time when the Rhone glacier occupied the locality to a depth of some 3000 feet.

Another station of the same period as Veyrier was announced in 1870 by M. H. Saussure (Bibliothèque Universelle), as having been discovered in the Grotte de Scé, near Villeneuve, and actually within the basin of the Lake of Geneva. Both