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be the most interesting of the " finds," lor it was identified as 

 pertaining to the ursus arctos. It is the skull of an old bear, 

 with the teeth worn down almost to stumps. The head and jaw 

 of this bear were thickly covered with stalagmite deposit. 



Amongst other articles submitted to Professor Boyd Dawkins 

 were a polished spear head, showing traces of having been gnawed 

 by rodents ; the top of a bone pin, turned in a lathe j and various 

 fragments of pottery, chiefly of the three different kinds, (i) rude 

 hand-made, (2) Samian, and (3) pseudo-Samian red ware.* 



Yet more recently, Mr. Salt has made further discoveries at 

 Deepdale. On December 26th, 1889, he found a skull, which is 

 supposed to be that of a wolf. On the same occabion, a narrow- 

 necked, flask-shaped vessel, was discovered two feet below the 

 surface. It is described as of a light stone colour, and coarse in 

 texture. The vessel has a handle at the lip ; a rough pencil sketch 

 seems to show that it is a small Roman ampulla. Two chipped 

 flints, and a long bone pin were also found on the same day. 

 On December 27th, Mr. Salt found a circular bronze fibula, with 

 a projecting central boss ; and on January 14th, 1890, the greater 

 part of a small bronze bracelet or bangle. From the pencil 

 sketches that Mr. Salt has kindly submitted to me, just before 

 going to press, of these his last discoveries, I venture to think 

 that they are sufficiently interesting to warrant our Society 

 having them specially illustrated and described in the next 

 issue of the Journal. 



Mr. Salt has also forwarded to me fourteen fragments of the 

 pottery found by him in the Deepdale cavern on December 27th 

 and on January 14th. There is a great and most interesting 

 variety in this little heap of potsherds. Two of the pieces are of 

 the coarse, hand-made black ware of early times, small fragments 

 of white gypsum being mixed with the paste ; this kind of pottery 

 has been more than once described in this Journal. The 

 remainder have all been turned on a wheel, and may be 

 generically described as Roman, or Romano-British, but of very 



* We are greatly obliged to the Professor for kindly supplying us with 

 brief notes as to the result of his examination of these finds. 



