. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. tional abundance than has been thecase in Kents Cavern. In some caves,however, as, for instance, in that of LeMoustier, instruments of this characterare extremely scarce. They appear to me to have served for otherpurposes besides that of dressing skins—one of the uses to whichsuch instruments are applied by the Esquimaux of the presentday. There is great probability of some of them having been usedfor striking fire by means of pyrites, as pyrites has been found insome of the French and Belgian caves. In the Trou de ChaJe
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. tional abundance than has been thecase in Kents Cavern. In some caves,however, as, for instance, in that of LeMoustier, instruments of this characterare extremely scarce. They appear to me to have served for otherpurposes besides that of dressing skins—one of the uses to whichsuch instruments are applied by the Esquimaux of the presentday. There is great probability of some of them having been usedfor striking fire by means of pyrites, as pyrites has been found insome of the French and Belgian caves. In the Trou de ChaJeux*a block was found deeply scored at one end, as if by constantscraping blows with flint: and another block from Les Eyzies, withthe end worn, is in the Christv Collection. Several examples of another form of tool, manufactured fromsimple triangular or polygonal flakes, have occurred in KentsCavern. In these, one end of the flake has been worked to anoblique straight scraping edge, forming an obtuse angle with one * Dupont, LHomme pend. les Ages de la Pierre, p.
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