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Rh the following animals, the numbers representing the jaws and teeth only, and the implements :—

"The remains of these animals were so intermingled that they must have been living together at the same time. They lie large with small, the more with the less dense, and are not in the least degree sorted by water. There is no evidence of the hyæna succeeding to the cave-bear or the reindeer to the urus, or that the bears came here to die, as in some of the German caves, or that the herbivores fell or were swept into open fissures, and left their remains, as in the caves of Hutton and Plymouth. On the contrary, the numerous jaws and teeth of hyæna, and the marks of those teeth upon nearly every one of the specimens, show that they alone introduced the remains that were found in such abundance. And they preyed not merely upon horses, uri and other herbivores, but upon one another, and they even overcame the cave-bear and lion in their full prime." (Cave Hunting, p. 310.)

As evidence of human habitation, there were found bone ashes, two rudely fashioned arrow- or lance-heads of bone (now lost), and a few flint implements. One of the finest specimens of the latter (Pl. X., No. 16) is a thin, oval-shaped implement, chipped on both sides, and resembling one found in Kent's Cavern (No. 29), both being small specimens of Acheuléen types which might be assigned to the Moustérien epoch. Habitable floors containing layers of album græcum were both above and beneath the stratum in which the flints were found, showing that hyænas and man alternately occupied the cave.