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drift type, in which a pebble has been chipped to a cutting edge all round. This form is repeated in ironstone, in which material the characteristic oval-shaped hâche (Fig. 45) has also been fashioned. Numerous quartzite pebbles also, with one end chipped to an edge, had probably been used as choppers for breaking up bones.
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Fig. 45.—Ironstone Implement, Robin Hood Cave, 11.
Fig. 46.—Flint Scraper, Robin Hood Cave, 12. a, Section.
Flint flakes and chips appear in the lower part of the cave-earth, and scrapers, one of which (Fig. 46) is a flake with its edge carefully and minutely chipped, very like one from Kent's Hole, Fig. 392 of Mr. Evans' work on Ancient Stone Imple-