24 PALAEOLITHIC MAN AT CRESWELL. 



bone or two, and some fragments of the human skeleton, show 

 us that at Creswell, as in other parts of Britain, the partly- 

 civilized Brit-Welsh, or Romano-British fugitives, sought a refuge 

 in the caves from the more powerful and warlike tribes, who 

 devastated the country after the withdrawal of the Roman 

 legions ; and with these remains of the early Britons, the history 

 of the Creswell caves may be closed for the present. 



