168 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. vi. 



along with the mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, horse, ox, 

 and stag. The skull was long and with simple sutures, 

 and the bones of the thigh and leg presented characters 

 which are commonly met with in human skeletons of the 

 Neolithic age, the linea aspera of the femur being 

 enormously developed, and the tibia being flattened. 1 

 -Other fragments found in the same pit, at a depth of 

 4 '20 metres, by M. Reboux, are considered by Dr. 

 Hamy to belong to a broad-headed race, but the frag- 

 ment of a frontal bone and of a lower jaw, upon which 

 this conclusion is founded, seem to me too imperfect to 

 afford decided evidence as to the shape of the skull. A 

 human parietal and occipital have been obtained by the 

 same discoverer at a depth of 4 metres, at Revolte, also 

 in the valley of the Seine. 



Human bones have also been met with in the valley 

 of the Somme ; those discovered by M. Emile Martin at 

 Grenelle, along with flint implements and the mammoth, 

 belong to a long-headed race with large brain, identi- 

 cal, according to Dr. Hamy, with those interred at 

 Cro-Magnon, in the valley of the Vezere. The flint 

 implements found at Grenelle are considered by M. de 

 Mortillet to belong to the same stage of culture as those 

 of the Cave-men of Moustier. 



No human skeleton of undoubted Pleistocene age 

 has as yet been discovered in river strata on the 

 continent sufficiently perfect to allow us to form an idea 

 of the physique of the River-drift men, and no human 

 bones have as yet been recorded from the fluviatile 

 deposits of Great Britain. The few fragments, however, 

 which remain to us, prove that at this remote period 

 man was present in Europe as man, and not as an inter- 



1 Cave-hunting, pp. 173-9. 



