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252 from the same cavern, although the former is thicker than the latter. They measure respectively 3 x 2⋅2 and 2⋅4 x 1⋅6 inches.

Five quartzite hammer-stones bruised and broken by use were also found, and many quartzite pebbles.

It may be remarked that palæolithic implements of quartzite have been met with in India in the Lateritic strata and in a river-deposit in the valley of the Narbadá ('Cave Hunting,' p. 426). In the Museum at Toulouse they are also to be seen from the valley-gravels of that neighbourhood.

Among the specimens sent to me by the Rev. J. M. Mello is a ground and polished fragment of Silurian or Cambrian flagstone (measuring 4 x 3 x 0⋅5 inches). It has formed part of a slab which has been broken up.

The flints which bear the trace of man's handiwork in the cave amount to upwards of 267. Among them the most striking are the flakes which have been wrought into finely pointed lanceolate forms. One of these, fig. 6 (measuring 3⋅35 x 0⋅95 inches), is carefully worked on the flat side (a), while the opposite surfaces are worked at the extremities. It is carefully chipped at both ends.

A second and smaller specimen presents the same general form. This type is identical with that figured by Mr. Evans from Kent's Hole, fig. 300, except that in the specimens from Robin-Hood Cave the greater part of the working is to be seen on the flat side.

The double-pointed lanceolate flake (fig. 7), which tapers from the wide central portion to the ends, from which apparently the points have been broken, is also carefully worked on the upper half of the flat surface; and the chipping has been continued to the end of the left lower side of the implement (a). On the other side (b) the opposite edge is worked on the opposite surface, with the practical result of producing a twist in the edges analogous to that