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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN.
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form, some being carefully chipped all round and oval, as in Fig. 62, while others are lanceolate (see Figs. 47, 48) and may have been intended for spear or javelin heads)

Fig. 63.—Trimmed Flake, Cave-earth, Kent's Hole, 1/2. Fig. 64.—Hammer-Stone, Cave-earth Kent's Hole, 1/2.


Figs. 65, 66.—Harpoon-heads, Cave-earth, Kent's Hole, 1/1.

There were also carefully-trimmed flakes (Fig. 63) and scrapers, both single and double, and hammer stones (Fig. 64). A bone needle also was met with, and bone awls, and two harpoons of reindeer antler, the one barbed on one side (Fig. 65), and the other on both sides (Fig. 66). With the exception of the two last, these implements are identical with those described in the preceding pages from the breccia and upper cave-earth of (the Cresswell caverns. The two deposits in Kent's Hole are separated from each other by a sheet of