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To these may be added a few birds' bones.

We may remark that the condition of the remains of the Dog show that it was used for food as well as for the chase.

This group of remains belongs to the historic period, as established by the Romano-British pottery and enamelled brooch.

Three small fragments of pottery, black in colour, and with little fragments of limestone imbedded in its paste, are of the same sort as that generally found in Neolithic deposits, and are unlike any Romano-British pottery which I have seen. They may imply that the cave was used as a shelter by Neolithic tribes as well as by Palæolithic hunters and Romano-British refugees.

A flint strike-a-light, triangular in form, and of uncertain date, was also obtained, as well as two leaden pistol-bullets and an iron ring, which it is unnecessary to notice.

The remains of the following Mollusca have been specifically identified by Mr. Thomas Kelsall, of the Manchester Museum:—

The general conclusions relating to the fauna of the Robin-Hood Cave will be deferred until that of the Church Hole has been brought before the Society.

In dealing with the distribution of the fossil remains in the Church Hole, I have adopted the same divisions as in the Robin-Hood Cave, those from the Red Sand being classified together, while those from the strata above, as far as the stalagmite, are ranked under a second head. The most important deduction to be made from the following Table is, that while the association of remains is similar to that in the Robin-Hood Cave, the remains in the Red Sand are more abundant and, it may be added, in a more fragmentary state. The Hyænas were present in greater force during the earlier stage in the history of this than in that of the above-mentioned cave.