180 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP.VII. 



moth, and other animals found in this stratum, and 

 seeking shelter in the cave. The hyaenas were the 

 normal inhabitants, and returned to their dens when man 

 forsook them. In this manner the intimate association 

 of human implements with the tooth -marked fragments 

 left by the hyaenas may be explained, not only in this, 

 but in the succeeding strata. 



The red sand furnished implements and the same 

 group of animals in the Church Hole, as well as in Mother 

 Grundy's Parlour. 



The Middle Cave-Earth. 



The second stage in the history of the occupation of 

 the caverns by man is marked by the lower and middle 

 portions of the cave- earth, b, which 

 contained enormous quantities of 

 bones and teeth of animals intro- 

 duced by the hyaenas, as well as 

 bones broken by the hand of man, 

 fragments of charcoal and imple- 

 ments of flint and quartzite amount- 

 ing to not less than eleven hundred. 

 The quartzite implements had been 

 manufactured out of pebbles, in 

 which advantage had been taken 

 of the smooth surface to form one 

 FIG. 42. Quartzite Flake, side f the cutting edge, and some 

 Robin Hood Cave, *. ^^ probably been intended for the 

 preparation of skins, like those in 

 use in 1873 among the Shoshones of north-western 

 Wyoming. "The Shoshones/' writes Captain Jones, 

 "though mostly provided with tools of iron and steel 



