72 MAN. 



So much has been written concerning these discoveries, 

 and so well known is the fame of the locality to intelligent 

 readers, that it will only be necessary here to state in out- 

 line the formation in which the relics were found. In 

 another work * I have given a full description, with an 

 illustration, of this locality. It shows a section of the 

 gravel-pit at St. Acheul, illustrating the five formations 

 composing it. The first is vegetable and made soil from 

 two to three feet thick. Beneath this is a formation 

 of brown loam from four to five feet thick, containing a 

 few angular flints ; underneath this was a third bed com- 

 posed of sandy marl from five to six feet thick, covered 

 ^\hh. a thin layer of angular gravel from one to two feet 

 thick. In this bed, and eleven feet from the surface, was 

 found a portion of an elephant's molar. The fourth bed, 

 composed of partially rounded gravel, was from ten to 

 fourteen feet thick, and in it the flint imiDlements were 

 chiefly found. Seventeen feet below the surface, and one 

 foot above a flint hatchet, occurred the entire molar of a 

 mammoth. Some of the flint imj^lements have the shape 

 of a spear-head, and are over seven inches in length. 

 Evidently all these had been deposited during the forma- 

 tion of this bed. And it is not improbable that the tooth 

 was taken from the skull of the animal by the hand that 

 fashioned the flint. 



In 1842, Mr. Godwin- Austen communicated to the Geo- 

 logical Society of London that he had examined Kent's 

 Hole, Devonshire, and found human remains and works 

 of art, such as arrow-heads and knives of flinty along with 

 the remains of the mammoth and other extinct mammalia, 

 and that the human remains and works of art were so 

 placed that they could not be separated from those of the 

 extinct fauna. These researches were conducted in the 

 parts of the cave which had never been disturbed, and 



* " Manual of the Antiquity of Man," pp. 34-38 



