128 PRIMAEVAL MAN IN THE VALLEY OF THE LEA.
direction of the arrows. Point ends broken off by use from
perfect implements in Palaeolithic times are also extremely common,
so of course are the butts.
Some of the butts show by
their condition that the
implements were used as
hammers or hammered as
wedges, with heavy pebbles,
into some other object or
material. The butts and
umbos were often used for
hammering.
Boring tools are often
overlooked unless the ex-
amples are well made; an
indifferent specimen from
the Valley of the Thames
at Hanwell is illustrated,
one-half actual size, in fig.
5. A better and more
keenly pointed example is
shown, one-half actual size, in fig. 6; this specimen was found at
Little Thurrock, by Mr. Sidney Robarts, a member of the Essex Field
Club. I have much more
distinct and highly finished
boring tools in my collec-
tion.
Wedges are not uncom-
mon. Two views of a mas-
sive wedge with a broad
chisel edge and heavy butt
is shown, one-half actual
size, in fig. 7. Some wedges
are much neater in design
and execution than the one
illustrated; as the example
illustrated in fig. 8, now in
the British Museum col-
lection at Bloomsbury.
Tools of fossil bone have never, as far as I am aware, been found