HOES OF STAG'S HORN.
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this kind, in the Stockholm Museum, is engraved the spirited representation of a deer. In one instance,[1] an axe has been made from the ulna of a whale. Lindenschmit[2] has engraved several of stag's horn, principally from Hanover. They occur also in France.[3] Beads and buttons of bone[4] have been found with early interments; but the curious bone objects discovered in a pit at Leicester,[5] and in the caves at Settle, Yorkshire,[6] belong apparently to too recent a period to be here discussed. A kind of bone chisel has remained in use until recent times for the purpose of removing the bark from oak-trees for the supply of tanners. Some beads and ornaments formed of bone will be mentioned in a subsequent chapter.
- ↑ Mém. de la Soc. des Ant. du N., 1845-49, p. 168.
- ↑ "Alterth. u. held. Vorz.," vol. i. Heft v. Taf. 1. See also "Horæ Ferales," pl. i.
- ↑ Boucher de Perthes, "Ant. Celt, et Antéd.," vol. i. pl. ii. 5, 7.
- ↑ Arch., vol. xxx. p. 330. Hoare's "South Wilts," p. 103. "Cat. Devizes Mus.," No. 10, 49b, 224, 302.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. i. p. 246.
- ↑ Smith's "Coll. Ant.," vol. i. p. 69.
