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<3n Hams Cabr, HongcUffc, I3cvt)s)s1^ivc. 



{Continued from Vol. XIV., page 228.) 



THIRD REPORT.— THE POTTERY, AND THE HUMAN AND 

 ANIMAL REMAINS. 



By John Ward. 



TJHE description and general results of the systematic 

 excavation of this cave from November, 1889, to 

 March, 1891, have been too fully set forth in previous 

 reports (Vol. XL, page 31 ; and Vol. XIV., page 228) 

 to need further amplification. The present paper will be confined 

 to several details only (as indicated in the heading) of this 

 excavation, which, for want of room, could not be particularized 

 in the second report. It is almost needless to say that it 

 will pre-suppose some acquaintance with that report, particularly 

 with those parts of it relating to the successive uses to which the 

 cave has been put by man. A brief summary of this succession 

 will be helpful. 



The lowest and oldest deposit obviously connected with the 

 presence of man, that was discovered, was a dark carbonaceous 

 soil highly charged with animals' bones and fragments of pottery. 

 Many of the bones were scraped and hacked, and still more had 

 been broken when in a fresh condition. These and other points 

 indicated that this layer was ancient refuse, and that it was 

 accumulated when the cave was used as a dwelling-place by man 

 (Vol. XIV., page 243). 



After an interval, this was followed by a brief period during 



