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Rh right bank of the river Düssel. The opening to the cave was from a small terrace in a steep limestone cliff, about 60 feet above the bed of the river and 110 feet below the surface of the plateau above. The cave has long ago been quarried away, but its dimensions are reported to have been about 16 feet in length, 11 feet in breadth, and 8 feet in height. Lyell gives a section showing a natural rent connecting the cave with the surface of the plateau above. The very existence of this rent, at any time, is categorically denied by M. G. de Mortillet. "Dans un dessin," says he, "qui court tous les ouvrages de paléoethnologie, Lyell représente un couloir qui partant du fond de la grotte remonte en s'arquant jusqu'à la surface du plateau. C'est une pure conception théorique. Ce couloir n'a jamais été constaté." (Le Préhistorique, p. 232.)

On the uneven floor of the cave lay a mass of consolidated mud about 5 feet in depth, without stalagmitic deposits, but sparingly mixed with rounded fragments of chert.

The discovery was made in August 1856, and Dr Fuhlrott arrived on the scene only in time to save and secure the skullcap, the two thigh- and arm-bones, portions of the forearms, a fragment of the right shoulder-blade, the left ilium, and five fragments of ribs.

No other animal remains, with the exception of a bear's tooth, of which neither the position nor character was determined, were discovered in the cave. Professor Schaaffhausen describes the cranium as covered, both on its outer and inner surface, with a profusion of minute dendritical crystallisations ; from which, however, no chronological inference can be drawn,