48 IDENTITY OF THE BRECCIA WITH THE "HEAD" 



Dr. Falconer observed that in no case do the bones 

 belong to one complete skeleton of any of the larger 

 Mammalia. A human molar tooth and some flint 

 flakes worked by Palaeolithic Man were also discovered 

 in the breccia of one of the fissures. 



It has been suggested that these remains are those 

 of animals that had lived and died on the Eock, and 

 were afterwards washed into the fissures by heavy 

 rains. But the condition of the bones renders this 

 difficult to conceive, and besides there is the same 

 incompatibility in the habits and resorts of the ani- 

 mals thus associated, as in the cases before mentioned. 

 The Hycena, Felidce, and Bears, might have fre- 

 quented the dens and crags of the Rock, but the Deer, 

 Bovidce, Horse, and others, must have lived in the 

 surrounding plains, and it has not been suggested 

 that they were earned to the Rock by carnivora, for 

 the bones would then have been gnawed. A great and 

 common danger, such as a great flood, alone could 

 have driven together the animals of the plains and of 

 the crags and caves. When the Rock again emerged, 

 the debris, consisting of the limestone disintegrated 

 during the previous long cold period formed with the 

 scattered remains of the animals and men drowned 

 by the inundating waters, this huge body of 

 Rubble. The scale is different, and the materials are 

 different, but in all essential respects the phenomena 

 are analogous to those presented by the " Head " at 

 Brighton and Sangatte. There is the same restric- 

 tion to local debris with large blocks, the same absence 

 of wear, the same traces of rude bedding, and the 



