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The other finds include a fragment of a stone bowl (2.5 cm thick) 

 made from a hard conglomerate highly polished on the inside, and a 

 portion of a hemispherical hammerstone with one polished surface. 

 Particularly interesting is a complete, sharp-edged celt (8.8 cm in 

 length), ovoid in form, which is made of conch shell. A fragment 

 of an obsidian knife, several large land snails with perforations, 

 various other fragmentary and whole bivalve shells, and five pieces 

 of a dark glass bottle are also present. There are several fragments 

 of animal bone and a number of small human skull and other bone 

 fragments which are highly mineralized. The latter are of consider- 

 able interest but unfortunately no likely places for more complete 

 burials could be found in the cave. 



BYRON CAVE 



This cave, the approximate location of which is given on the map 

 (fig. 2), is some distance inland in a wooded area and was rather 

 difficult to locate. It was explored by Bird but not visited by our 

 party. Bird reports that the small cave opening leads back into the 

 rock from the bottom of a craterlike formation. For about 60 feet 

 it is low and narrow, opening into a fair-sized room with a deep pool 

 of fresh water at one side. Bird secured several lime incrusted sherds 

 in the passageway and, by diving, brought up one vessel from a depth 

 of about 18 feet in the pool. This was located with a flashlight, the 

 deep dive being made even more hazardous by the low roof over a 

 portion of the pool. This bowl is about 30 cm in diameter with a 

 globular body, a slightly contracted neck and a low, swollen, everted 

 rim. The only decoration is an incised line around the neck. The 

 sherds from the chamber and passageway include a small section of 

 an undecorated globular pot (perhaps 25 cm in diameter) which has 

 a constricted orifice but no rim ; a portion of a short-necked bottle or 

 water jar (perhaps 20 cm in diameter) ; and half of a globular bowl 

 with a slightly constricted orifice and a low, slightly flaring rim. 

 The latter has a small vertical loop handle and an estimated diameter 

 of 15 cm. The small sherds from the passageway have a calcareous 

 incrustation about 1.5 mm in thickness on their surface. All the 

 pottery from this site is of plain red ware, fairly well polished, and 

 the majority of the pieces are somewhat smoke-blackened. They are 

 obviously utilitarian types. 



Bird states that the inner cave is poorly adapted for habitation and, 

 as there is a good fresh-water pool in the outside crater, believes that 



