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one of the most satisfactory results of the exploration ; as it had 

 evidently been used for grinding purposes. 



Mr. "WiLLETT : And it must have come a distance of many 

 hundreds of miles ; as there is no stone of the kind near. 



Mr. WoNPOR, continuing, said another exti'aordinary thing 

 ■was the fact that the entrance into one of the pits was found to be 

 square. Dr. Livingstone had called attention to the fact that the 

 natives of Africa could not build square, and the circumstance that 

 these pits were partly constructed square seemed to bear out the 

 idea that the people using them must have been highly civilized, 

 while the indication of the presence of feral, rather than domestic, 

 animals seemed to tend in an opposite direction. Then came the 

 other point, namely, that Mr. Tyndall's pit was found to be a kind 

 of charnel house, in which were strewn bones and what not. 

 Perhaps, other pits might reveal similar things ; and it might be 

 found that, instead of these being the bones of feral animals, the 

 people used domestic cattle as well. He believed the bones of 

 domestic animals were found by Col. Lane Fox ? 



Mr. WiLLETT : On the surface soil only. 



Mr. "WoNFOE hoped they would be able to prove at some time 

 or other that the pits were the finishing places, and not merely 

 places where the materials were roughly hewn and then taken 

 elsewhere for completion as implements. He looked forward with 

 much interest to this point being cleared up. The expeiience of 

 Mr. Willett at Cissbury, coupled with what was discovered at 

 Grime's Graves, was, he thought, most satisfactory evidence of 

 what the pits were primarily used for ; though they might, second- 

 arily, have been used as places of refuge. He felt much indebted 

 to Mr. "Willett for his paper. 



Mr. Willett said he should very much have liked Mr Tyndall 

 to have been present, either to support him or to hear what he had 

 to say on the subject. Mr. Tyndall's pit was very much deeper 

 [SO ft.) than his (Mr. Willett's) : but it was not attached to any 

 galleries ; nor did the layer of flint extend to this pit. Whether 

 flint was distributed over the whole area he did not know. Any- 

 how, flint was not found there ; and, therefore, the pit might have 

 been used for throwing in what was found. Mr. Tyndall had some 



