166 



EELIQTJLE AQUITANICLE. 



ft. in. 



1. Calcareous rubble, with a few flint flakes, reaching nearly to roof of cave at the back, 



and filling it up in front about 2 6 



2. Dark-coloured bed, containing numerous fractured bones, worked flints, and calca- 



reous and other pebbles. A regular kjokken-modding about 1 



3. Layer of red micaceous sand, containing but few bones and worked flints about 1 6 



4. Bed containing stones used for hearths, with charcoal, bones, and worked flints. (Both 



this bed and No. 2 are brecciated in places.) about 1 



5. Hard brecciated bed, containing rolled flints and quartz and other pebbles, and possibly 



bones about 1 



The bones in the upper beds comprise those of the Horse, Aurochs, Chamois, 

 Reindeer, and other animals ; but the remains of the Reindeer are not so abun- 

 dant as they are at some of the other stations shortly to be described. In the 

 bed of sand No. 3 some detached plates of molars of Mephas primigenim were 

 found by MM. Lartet and Christy, who also discovered in the Cave some remains 

 of Hyaena spelcea, but not under such circumstances as, in their opinion, to justify 



Fig. 60. 



Eye-sketch of Le Moustier, from the opposite side 

 of the river, showing the upper Cave (said to 

 contain nothing), and Le-Moustier Cave, partly 

 railed off, and with garden-ground in front of it. 



Fig. 61. 



Diagram Profile of the Limestone Escarpment of 

 Le Moustier, from the South-west, about 190 

 feet high. 



The Cave, with bones &c. 



^_ Recesa, with bones &c. 



in this instance an inference of their contemporaneity with Man. None of the 

 bones found here have been carved or wrought into instruments of any kind. 

 The worked flints discovered here present a different fades from those which we 

 saw at other places in the valley of the Vezere. The smaller and more delicate 

 and taper flakes are far less frequently found than at the other stations lower 

 down the valley ; and the coarser broad flat forms predominate ; " scrapers " are 

 comparatively scarce ; and many of the cores or nuclei, if such they are, are irre- 



