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600 The spelæan bones measured (in inches) belong to the limbs of two individuals which fell a prey to the Hyænas, and by a rare chance were not destroyed by their teeth. They were found in the Red Sand.

Mammoth.—The Woolly Elephant is represented by 8 teeth and fragments belonging to adults, and by 38 teeth and fragments belonging to the young. The three oldest and largest teeth are first true molars.

The remains of the Hare and the Water-vole demand no special notice, excepting that the numerous broken bones of the former show that it was an important article of food with the palaæolithic inhabitants of the cave during the accumulation of the upper Cave-earth and the breccia.

The superficial layer in the cave, which in some places rested on the stalagmite and in others on the upper Cave-earth, and was nowhere more than a few inches in thickness, contained the same group of objects as that from the upper strata in the Victoria Cave. They consist of the following:—

1. A harp-shaped Romano-British brooch, adorned with blue diamonds of enamel, flanked by red triangles, of the exact size and form of that figured in my work on 'Cave-hunting' from the Victoria Cave (coloured plate, fig. 1). The two are so alike that I have no doubt that they were turned out of the same workshop.

2. A flat lamina of bronze pierced at one end for suspension, and at the other prolonged into two points which may have been used as fixed compasses. It is an implement of the same kind as that figured in 'Cave-hunting' from the Victoria Cave (coloured plate, fig. 2).

3. The boss of the hilt of a sword or dagger carved out of the head of the femur of Horse or Ox, and ornamented with concentric circles which may have been made with number 2.

4. A fragment of Samian ware, and many fragments of grey lathe-turned pottery of the usual Romano-British type, such as that found in abundance at the Romano-British cemeteries of Hardham and Seaford in Sussex.

5. A whetstone. Numerous broken bones of animals which had been used for food.

6. A few human teeth, human vertebræ, a fragment of a femur, of an ulna, and a few bones of the extremites were also met with.

7. The remains of the animals imply a mixture of wild and domestic species, as may be seen in the following Table:—