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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. vii. 



, Messrs. Beard, Ashford Sanford, and myself, 

 (have presented in Wookey Hole traces of the Palaeolithic 

 man of the higher strata of the Cresswell caves, in 

 several well-trimmed flakes and well-chipped oval imple- 

 ments of flint (Fig. 60), along with the same group of 

 animals?) 



Palceolithic Men of Kent's Hole. 



The first evidence that there were in the caverns of 

 this country two distinct sets of Palaeolithic imple- 

 ments, is that presented 

 by Kent's Hole, so ably 

 explored under the 

 superintendence of Mr. 

 Pengelly. 1 In the low- 

 est strata of crystalline 

 breccia are rude imple- 

 ments of the Kiver-drift 

 type (Fig. 61), in asso- 

 ciation with the remains 

 of bear, out of one canine 

 tooth of which animal a 

 flake had been manufac- 

 tured, presenting all the 

 ordinary conchoid al frac- 

 ture of flint. It had 

 been made after the 

 tooth had become fos- 

 silised. " The imple- 

 ments found in the 



FIG. 61. Flint Hache, Breccia, 



Kent's Hole, \. breccia," Mr. Pengelly 



remarks, were "exclusively of flint and chert. They 



1 Brit. Ass. Reports, 1864-78. 



