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SECTION OF SEPULCHRAL GROTTO AT AURIGNAC. chap. x. 



rock, about forty-five feet above the brook, is now visible the 

 entrance of a grotto, a, fig. 25, which opened originally on the 

 terrace h, c, k, which slopes gently towards the valley. 



Fig, 25. 



Section of part of the hill of Fajoles passing through the sepulchral grotto of 

 Aurignac (E. Lartet). 



a Part of the vault in which the remains of seventeen human skeletons 

 were found. 



b Layer of made ground, two feet thick, inside the grotto, in which a few 

 human bones, with entire bones of extinct and living species of ani- 

 mals, and many works of art, were imbedded. 



c Layers of ashes and charcoal, eight inches thick, with broken, burnt, and 

 gnawed bones of extinct and recent mammalia; also hearth-stones and 

 works of art ; no human bones. 



d Deposit with similar contents and a few scattered cinders. 



e Talus of rubbish washed down from the hill above. 



f, g Slab of rock which closed the vault, not ascertained whether it ex- 

 tended to h. 



/, i Eabbit-burrow which led to the discovery of the grotto. 



h, k Original terrace on which the grotto opened. 



N Nummulitic limestone of hill of Fajoles. 



Until the year 1852, the opening into this grotto was 

 masked by a talus of small fragments of limestone and earthy 



