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had accumulated in that part of the trench which these flint-workers 
occupied when they temporarily encamped there, lighted their fires, 
cooked their food, and formed their flint weapons; and the depth of 
this accumulation would imply a considerable lapse of time. 
The time of their stay must have been either summer or autumn, 
for in the spring and winter months the level of their encampment, 
which is 9ft. under the present surface of the meadow, would be 
always under water, because it is much below the level of the ad- 
jacent stream, which forms the only drainage for this district. In 
the winter of every year this meadow is, even now, frequently 
submerged by the overflow of the stream. 
Besides their weapons, these flint-men left behind some remains 
of the animals which supplied them with food, and Professor Lloyd 
Morgan has identified the boues of deer, ox, and pig; also of man’s 
faithful companion, the dog. We may infer that some of their 
food was cooked by boiling, for the small sarsen stones found 
associated with the other remains have all been burnt, and probably 
have been used as pot-boilers. 
More remarkable still, there was found, in this black layer, a 
human bone which had been broken into two pieces. It is a femur 
possessing peculiar characteristics of some interest, from the fact of 
the Zinea aspera being developed to a very unusual extent. 
I wish to direct attention to the lower jaws, aud to the fragments 
of bones, from this black layer. These fragments are just such 
~ small hard pieces as we now see left uneaten by dogs; and they are 
evidently the dogs’ leavings. Sir John Lubbock, in his account of 
the Danish kitchen-middens, describes a similar fact, and he alludes 
_ to the frequent occurrence of the lower jaws of animals which the 
- dogs had there left uneaten. 
In every shaft but one, many bones of animals were found in the 
alluvium, at all depths. Professor Lloyd Morgan has kindly 
examined these, and, with the exception of those bones found in 
_ the black layer, pronounces that they belong exclusively to ox and 
deer. It is remarkable that not any bones of sheep were found in 
these excavations, although that animal has for many centuries been 
most abundant in Wiltshire. 
