. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Tlie Stone Ages of South Africa. 57 it rises to a couple of hundred feet and has quite large trees growing upon it. In the sand are no implements, but lying all over the surface are some of the same type, exactly as those found in B. Large implements are not common on the surface, and some are. /?/V£-/? Fig. 5.—A—Fine sand. B—Gravel, diamond bearing, consisting almost entirely of rolled agates, &e., wherein are the large and small Implements. quite unlike the water-worn rocks that they accompany,
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Tlie Stone Ages of South Africa. 57 it rises to a couple of hundred feet and has quite large trees growing upon it. In the sand are no implements, but lying all over the surface are some of the same type, exactly as those found in B. Large implements are not common on the surface, and some are. /?/V£-/? Fig. 5.—A—Fine sand. B—Gravel, diamond bearing, consisting almost entirely of rolled agates, &e., wherein are the large and small Implements. quite unlike the water-worn rocks that they accompany, and I am convinced that while some are undoubted implements, others were implements in the ; The pieces received fi'om Miss Wilman are almost smooth, with the angles and facets quite obliterated. Many ai^e tongue-shaped, and others more or less regularly almond-shaped. The examples represented in PI. IX., Figs. 57 to 60, which were found at Barkly West, not far from Nooitgedacht, give a good idea of their appear- ance, though some are even more amorphous. In common with many collectors who jjic/c specimens to oblige friends, Mr. A. du Toit, of the Cape Geological Survey, who pre- sented these last-mentioned examples, left many the conditions of which through abrasion made him doubtful as to their being artefacts. On the whole, these bouchers show traces of superior workman- ship, most of them having been "knapped" on either side. Some are of the unusually large " shard " form trimmed only on one face, and it is to these that Miss Wilman alluded as being in the ; Several of the smaller, about 100 mm. in length, are well finished, others not; one still retains its wedge shape. The cleavers are easily recognisable, and round the butt of one there is a very irregular depression that, if not accidental, might make hafting by hgatures possible. The cleavers of PI. VIII., Figs. 52 to 56, met not far from Nooitgedacht, are of the same
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