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Updated: May 13, 2025
Thirty of these shafts were excavated in succession; and amongst the rubbish of all kinds with which they were filled were found some well cut celts, showing no trace of polish, and some weapons or tools of the Mousterien type. The number of half-finished implements, and the even greater quantity of chips, points to these shafts having formed a centre of manufacture.
From the Veyrier cave, near Mount Saleve, were taken nearly 1,000 stone implements; from those of Petit Morin, 2,000 arrow-heads; from that of Cottes, on the banks of the Gartampe, more than 264 pounds' weight of flints, some of the Mousterien and others of the Madeleine type, mixed with the bones of the rhinoceros, and of several large beasts of prey of indeterminate. species.
In portions of this same Engis Cave not previously explored the learned professor of Liege found, in 1887, fragments of a vase of ovoid form, some flints of the Mousterien type, and some bones of extinct mammals. Most of the pottery in the Brussels Museum is black and of primitive make; some few fragments, however, are of finished workmanship.
The lowest deposit, which is some twenty-five feet below the present level of the soil, contains worked flints of the Mousterien type, above which, but separated by an accumulation of DEBRIS which has fallen from the roof, comes a layer in which was found a number of arrow-heads of the shape of laurel leaves. The fauna of both these levels includes the reindeer, the horse, and the aurochs.
The bones, few of which were missing, were still in their natural position, and near to one of them were picked up several arrow- or lance-heads, one of which, of phtanite, some two and a half inches long, was of the purest Mousterien type.
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