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Rh numerous flint flakes and fragments of charcoal in the breccia prove that then Man was the normal inhabitant of the cave, while the broken bones prove that he fed for the most part on hares.

The remains from the surface-soil belong to domestic animals, such as the Short-horned Ox (Bos longifrons), Goat, Hog, and Dog, or to Hares and Rabbits. A fragment of Samian ware and pieces of rude black pottery prove that the cave was visited after the Roman conquest, and sherds of a glazed jar that it was also visited in the middle ages.

The accompanying list of species shows the vertical distribution of the animals in the cave, and enables us to form a rough idea of the mammalian fauna of the district. It will be seen that during the accumulation of the lower and middle strata the Horse was more often the prey of the Hyæna than any of the other animals, and next to it the woolly Rhinoceros, just as in the Hyæna-den of Wookey Hole, while the Bison, so enormously abundant in the deposit at Windy Knoll (Derbyshire), is comparatively rare. It was, however, more abundant in the lower stratum in the cave than in the cave-earth, the numbers of specimens in each being as thirty to six.