1874.] in Kent’s Cavern. 149 
5th. The period of the Granular Stalagmite, Black Band, 
and Cave-earth may be denominated the Hyenine period, the 
remains of hyzna being confined to these deposits, and 
more prevalent there than those of any other species. 
6th. The period of the Crystalline Stalagmite and Breccia 
—the most ancient period represented by the Cavern deposits 
so far as they are at present known—may be called the 
Ursine period, these deposits having yielded remains of bear 
only. It must be understood, however, that bears are repre- 
sented in all the deposits. 
“7th. The bones of each period were distinguishable by 
their condition; those from the Black Mould being lighter, 
and those found in the Breccia being more mineralised, than 
the products of the Cave-earth. 
Flint and chert implements presented themselves in each 
of the mechanical deposits, and, as in the case of the bones, 
those belonging to any one of them were easily distinguish- 
able from those of the other two. 
The implements of the Black Mould—the Ovine, or most 
modern period—were of the ordinary colour of common 
flints. ‘They were mere flakes and ‘‘strike-lights,” the latter 
probably used and cast aside or lost by those who, during a 
long period, and before the invention of lucifer-matches, 
acted as guides to the Cavern. All further mention of them 
may be omitted as not being noteworthy. 
Omitting mere flakes and chips, of which there were 
great numbers, the principal implements found in the Cave- 
earth—the Hyzenine period—were ovoid, lanceolate, and 
tongue-shaped, produced by fashioning, not flint or chert 
nodules, but flakes struck off them for the purpose. They 
were of comparatively delicate proportions; those of flint 
were usually of a white colour and porcellanous aspect, and 
having, through metamorphosis, a granular chalk-like texture. 
mhese are “not the only human industrial remains found 
in the Cave-earth, as it has yielded a bone needle or bodkin 
with a well-formed eye, three bone harpoons or fish spears— 
one of them barbed on both sides, and the others on one 
only—a bone pin, a bone awl, hammer stones, ‘ whetstones,” 
charred bones and wood, and a badger’s canine tooth having 
its fang artificially perforated apparently for the purpose of 
being strung with other objects to form a necklace or 
bracelet—an indication that the cave men of the Hyznine 
period occupied themselves in making ornaments as well as 
objects of mere utility. 
The implements from the Breccia—the Ursine, or most 
ancient of the periods—were much more rudely formed, 
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