. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 210.—Yorkshire Wolds. Fig. 211.—Yorkshire Wolds. Fig. 211 shows another specimen from the Yorkshire Wolds. It ismade from a flat flake, considerably curved longitudinally, and trimmedat the end as well as along a small portion of the left side. Some aremore oval in form, and have been chipped along the sides, and somewhatrounded at the butt. In several instances the chipped edge at the butt-end is slightly worn away by friction, the edge of the rounded endbeing unworn. Fig. 212 is a kite-shaped scraper from Yorkshir
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 210.—Yorkshire Wolds. Fig. 211.—Yorkshire Wolds. Fig. 211 shows another specimen from the Yorkshire Wolds. It ismade from a flat flake, considerably curved longitudinally, and trimmedat the end as well as along a small portion of the left side. Some aremore oval in form, and have been chipped along the sides, and somewhatrounded at the butt. In several instances the chipped edge at the butt-end is slightly worn away by friction, the edge of the rounded endbeing unworn. Fig. 212 is a kite-shaped scraper from Yorkshire, also made from a. Fig. 212.—Yorkshire Wolds. flat flake, but showing a considerable extent of the original crust of theflint of which it was made. It comes almost to a point at the butt-end,and both edges are somewhat chipped away, as if the instrument had19 274 SCRAPERS. [chap. XIII. at that end been used as a boring tooL The point is somewhat roundedby friction. Occasionally scrapers of this form are chipped on both faces at the pointed base, so as to make themclosely resemble arrow-heads. It seemspossible that this pointing was for thepurpose of hafting the tool more readilyin wood. Fig. 213 shows one of .what may betermed the duck-bill scrapers. It is madefrom a flat flake as usual, somewhatcurved, and showing all alorg one edgethe original crust of the flint. It is neatlyworked to a semicircular edge at the point,but the sides are left entirely found it on the Sussex Downs, nearCuckmare Haven. A smaller analogous instrument, fromthe Yorkshire Wolds, is shown in It is made fr
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