MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
The details of the find are given by Miss Garrod; the 
main points are as follows: 
The Mousterian site at Devil’s Tower was discovered in 1917 by 
the Abbé Breuil, then acting as diplomatic courier between Gibraltar 
and the French Naval Bureau at Madrid. In the course of a visit to 
the North Front of the Rock he noticed fragments of fossil bone in 
the talus of a small cave or rock-shelter at the foot of the immense 
vertical peak of Rock-Gun, immediately opposite a ruin known as the 
Devil’s Tower. M. Breuil was unable to follow up this discovery at 
the time, but in 1919 he returned to Gibraltar and with the help of 
the late Colonel Willoughby Verner dug a trial trench a little way 
down the talus of the shelter, unearthing a number of animal bones 
and four stone implements of definite Mousterian type. My own 
work on the shelter, undertaken at M. Breuil’s suggestion, occupied 
seven months, between November, 1925, and January, 1927, and was 
carried out by means of a grant from the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund. 
The Devil’s Tower cave is a narrow fissure running obliquely into 
the Rock of Gibraltar at the eastern end of the North Front, 350 m. 
from Forbes Quarry. It has a maximum height of 12 m. and a 
maximum width of 1.20 m., and 4 m. from the entrance it narrows to 
a mere crack. The rocky floor at the cave mouth lies 9 m. above sea 
level, and 5 m. above the average level. 
The work carried out consisted in emptying the cave down to the 
rock floor and removing the talus or terrace deposits over an area 
extending from the rock wall which bounded them on the west to a 
line 4.50 m. to the east of the cave mouth. Seven layers of deposit 
were revealed in this way, the succession from above downwards being 
as follows: 
. Fine sand, filling the fissure to the roof. 
. Calcareous tufa, I-4 m. 
. Fine sand, 20 cm.—1I m. 
. Travertine, 10-80 cm. 
. Fine sand, 40 cm.—1.40 m. 
. Travertine, 50-75 cm. 
. Raised beach, with its surface at 8.50-g9 m. above sea level. 
SIAnFW HH 
Layers 1-5 contained archeological material, the industry from top 
to bottom being Mousterian. 
The total number of implements and flakes recovered 
was small—less than 5oo—the majority in quartzite, the 
rest in flint, chert, and jasper. There were also two frag- 
ments of bone compressors. The industry of layers 1 
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