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answering his purpose. This cave is in the Freudenthal, a little 
N.-S. valley, opening on the Rhine near Schaffhausen, in the 
upper white Jurassic limestone, there dipping 5°8.E. It is scarcely 
70 feet above the valley, under a projecting rock on the eastern 
slope, which is called the Rosenhalde, about 120 feet high, and 
forming the western edge of the Reyath plateau. The entrance of 
the cave was nearly blocked up with the débris covering the hill- 
side ; but it proved to be about 4 feet high and wide, and 10 feet 
long, leading into a large interior, quite dark, about 50 feet long, 
6 feet broad in the middle, and 12 feet high, with the floor sinking 
towards each side, and rising gently from the middle both inwards 
and outwards, the former slope being due to the rise of the bottom 
of the cave, whilst the slope near the entrance was due to the in- 
coming of débris from without. Some bones of a Fox and of a 
Sheep, with a charred stick, lay about the surface. 
By successive diggings, with the aid of Dr. E. Joos, Herr Niiesch 
(of the High School), Prof. Merklein, and a labourer or two, Herr 
Karsten found the following succession of deposits :—1. Uppermost, 
2 feet of loose limestone fragments, with some bones of recent 
animals scattered throughout, also some few shards of turned 
pottery, the lowest at 14 foot depth. On the surface were flakes of 
limestone, containing flint nodules, loosened by frost from the roof. 
2. One foot of similar limestone débris, but mixed with marl, 
more especially downwards, yellow and grey. It contained some 
bones of Stag, Roe, Fox, Badger, Boar, Goat, and other recent 
animals, together with fragments of human bones and pieces of 
very coarse pottery, more abundant than that in the upper bed, and 
thus distributed to the depth of from 2 to 3 feet. Only one perfect 
vessel could be restored from the many scattered shards. This 
pottery is hand-made, ornamented with nail-marks and such lke. 
It corresponds with that of the pile-villages, and, according to 
Dr. Keller, is similar to that of the Gallo-Celtic period. No stalag- 
mite was met with in the cave; but between the beds No. 1 and 
No. 2 there is a local bed of loose white calc-tuff, partly pisolitic, 
without any stones, 1 foot thick and about 2 square métres in 
extent. 
3. Below the one-foot pottery band is another bed of limestone 
débris, from 1 to 1} foot in the back part, and 2 feet thick in the 
front part of the cave, mixed with much more clay than in No. 2, 
and, indeed, in the lowest layers half clay. This bed was full of 
broken bones of man and beasts, the latter either now extinct or 
gone from the region (Reindeer, Ibex, Horse, &c.), together with 
Reindeer-antlers, works of art made of antler and of wood, broken 
flints ‘and flint knives, so called. Entire flints also occurred in 
great numbers, and partly of a colour different from that in the upper 
beds, where a flint nearly 4 cubic feet in size was met with. With 
the bones &c. occurred also a number of pebbles of quartzose and 
crystalline rocks, some of which apparently had been used for 
rubbers, having flat rubbed faces; also smoothing- and polishing- 
stones of quartzose, argillaceous, and caleareous schists; lastly, a 
