The Grotte de Noailles, close to Brive, Corrèze, southwest France, which has given its name to a small multiple burin - an Upper Palaeolithic flake tool retouched to give several chisellike edges. The Noailles burin distinguishes a facies of the Upper Perigordian or Noaillian, dating to c 27,000 bp; an Upper Palaeolithic flake tool retouched to give several chisel-like edges.