cgi8. I. Evans: Cave Exploration, Lenggong, Perak. j.;i 



brittle, and seemingly much impregnated with lime from the 

 stratum in which the) lay. 1 am inclined to think, therefore, 

 that the skeleton w;i neons with the deposit in 



which it was found. Since the skeleton was incomplete, we 

 must suppose that the bod\ was partly destroyed 1 aftei d< ath. 



The pottery, menu <l above, I shall also treat ol in 



connexion with the finds mad cond set of excavations, 



i ai i ied out, as 1 have obsi rvi d, in the othei ba\ at the 

 Gelok entrance to the Gua Kajang. This was considerably 

 smaller than that whi< h ivi i pi tied first, 2 having a length oi 

 • and a breadth oi twenty, and being subtended by 

 only two walls. The time at my disposal was not sufficient to 

 allow of the whole ol the siti being explored and I contented 

 myself with opening two square pit (ea< h 5 feet by 5 feet), in 

 the same line, but separated by a band of earth tour ami a half 

 feet wide. In these we found that the shell and bone deposit 

 extended to a depth of about three feet, with several inches 

 ot mixed clay and sand lying below. The two pits were dug 

 at about a distance of two feet from the side-wall of the bay, 

 and the measurement from the end wall to the nearest edge ol 

 the innermost ol the two was five feet six inches. In one of 

 these excavations a rough stone implement was found at just 

 fool from the surface, and several flakes and a core at 

 depths ranging from one to two feet. Fragments of pottery 

 were ilso present in -mall quantities — chiefly in the mote 

 superficial layers, but one 01 two piei es were found at a depth 

 of nearly two feet. 



To turn now to the subject of manufactured stone imple- 

 ment - and flakes found in I he course of our explorations. 



In both sets of excavations a large number of pebbles were 

 met with, which were obviously not local: many of them 

 were of quartz, others ol some dark, fine-grained met amorphic 

 rock, or ol red chert (?). These must evidently have been 

 brought home b\ the cave-dwellers either for use in their 

 natural state, 01 foi the purpose of making implements. 



Now the Hakes, nearly all of which have well developed 

 bulbs ot percussion, must, I think, owing to the situation in 

 which they were found, be allowed to be madi by man. The} 

 have not yel been examined l>\ a geologist with a view to 

 determining their materi t Is, but the following rocks seem to be 

 represented red chert (one flake); limestone (one flnki 

 reddish-yellow chert (?) (two flakes); yellow chert (?) (one 

 flake); black metamorphic rock (two Hake- ; a fine-grained 

 ichn coloured tone (one flake); stalactite (one flake . In 

 addition numerous fragmi nl ol pebbli of various kinds were 

 found, vhich do nol exhibit definite signs of working. The 

 core- shews clear traces of at least eleven flakes having been 



1 Pei 1 . bm i< d at all, bn 



merely left lying in tin 



1 1 in- hr 1 bay was a small cave seventy-six fe< I long with a minimnr 

 breadth ol b 



