Page:Prehistoric Britain.djvu/118

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
110
PREHISTORIC BRITAIN

than a dozen harpoons of the kind now under review. Here the reindeer was almost entirely supplanted by the red-deer, as it contained only two teeth of the former, whereas those of the latter amounted to 500. The deposits in which they were found lay beneath a series of Neolithic burials.
Fig. 20.—Harpoons, etc., from various localities. No. 1. Victoria Cave; (2) the bed of the Dee (Kirkcudbright); (3) near Newcastle; (4-7) Grotte de Reilhac (France); (8) Swiss Lake-dwelling (Collection Gross); (9) Laugerie Basse. (All 1/2, except 4 and 7 = 3/8.)