THE QUARTERLY 
meee NAL OF SCIENCE. 
APRIL, 1874. 
Peon THE FLINT AND CHERT IMPLEMENTS 
FOUND IN KENT’S CAVERN, NEAR 
TORQUAY, “DEVONSHIRE. 
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eS the northern shore of the beautiful inlet of the 
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English Channel known as Torbay, in Devonshire, 
stand the town and harbour of Torquay; and about 
a mile eastward from the harbour there is a small hill,. con- 
sisting exclusively of limestone, and containing the cele- 
brated Kent’s Hole or Cavern. It is but little more than 
200 feet above mean tide, whilst immediately on the south- 
west, and about half a mile to the north-west, rise two 
loftier eminences, known as Lincombe and Warberry Hills, 
consisting of grey shales and dark red grits, and reaching the 
heights of 372 and 450 feet respectively. 
Though the cavern seems to have been well known at 
least three centuries ago, the attention of palzontologists 
and anthropologists was first directed to it by the labours 
and discoveries of the late Rev. J]. MacEnery, of Torquay. 
In his ‘Cavern Researches,” he says :—‘‘ In the summer of 
1825, Dr. Buckland, accompanied by Mr. Northmore, of 
Cleve, visited the cave of Kent’s Hole in search of bones. I 
attended them. Nothing remarkable was discovered that 
day, excepting the tooth of a rhinoceros and a flint blade. 
This was the first instance of the occurrence of British 
relics being noticed in this, or, I believe, in any other cave. 
Both these relics ’twas my good fortune to find.’’* 
Towards the close of the same year, he commenced a 
somewhat systematic exploration of the Cavern, and, in the 
course of his researches, met with a considerable number of 
flint implements; and, believing the ground in which they 
were met with to have been previously broken up, he set 
himself seriously to work to ascertain whether or not they 
occurred under the undisturbed floor of stalagmite, covering 
* Trans. Devon. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and 
Art, vol. iii., p. 441. 1869. 
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