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604 2. Two bone awls (fig. 5) fashioned out of the tibiæ of a Hare, and polished by long-continued use.

3. A broad spatulate fragment (fig. 6) of the distal portion of the transverse process of one of the lumbar vertebræ either of a Horse or large ruminant, rounded at the end and with its edges notched. It closely resembles the "bone knife-like implement notched and scored" from the Grotte de la Gorge d'Enfer, figured in the 'Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ' (B, pl. xxv. fig. 2, pp. 183 et seq.). In our specimen, however, the notches are deeper and wider apart.

4. Two carefully rounded rods made of antler, with one of their extremities traversed by a deep lateral groove (fig. 7), and the other broken short off, may have been spear-heads, in which case the groove would be for the reception of the tapering end of the shaft. They are of the same form as the basal portions of those from the cave of the Kesslerloch, considered by Dr. Merk to be spear-heads (op. cit. figs. 16, 20, 26). A third cylinder of antler, rounded like the above, resembles the one from Cro-Magnon, figured in the 'Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ' (B, pl. xii.).

3. Articles of Flint and Quartzite.—Among the stone implements the only two forms worthy of notice are those presented by three flakes, two of which have one of their edges straight, sharp, and unworn, while the other is worn to a curve (fig. 8). This is doubtless due, as Mr. Evans has suggested in his 'Ancient Stone Implements,' to the sharp edge having been imbedded in a handle of some perishable material, either wood, like some of the flakes from the neolithic pile-dwellings of Switzerland, or horn, which would speedily be destroyed (see dotted outline in fig. 8). The second form is that of an awl, consisting of a flake with the end chipped to a point and well worn by friction.

The following list represents the distribution of the palæolithic implements in the cave:—