352 IMPLEMENT MADE FROM A DEER'S ANTLER.
The annexed drawing is made from a bone implement in
my collection which I obtained only this year in Normandy.
I was sauntering round one of those delightful street-markets
in an old Norman town, where, amongst others, were some very
poor vendors of scrap-iron, old tools, &c.—a veritable EI Dorado
for the antiquary—when I saw this bone implement, brown and
Chisel-shaped Bone, used for barking birch-trees, Normandy (one-half
natural size).
A. Side view of end of implement.
polished by age and long use, and having the rusty blade of a
pocket knife inserted at the unworked end, the other end being
ground to an edge, as in the specimen described by Mr.
Worthington Smith. (The bone appears to be ox.)