CHAP, vii.] PALAEOLITHIC MEN OF KENT S HOLE. 



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were much more rudely formed, more massive, less 

 symmetrical in outline, and made by operating not 

 on flakes but directly on nodules, of which portions of 

 the original surface generally remained, and w-hich were 

 probably derived from supra-cretaceous gravels existing 

 in great volume between Torquay and Newton Abbot, 

 about four miles from the cavern. It is obvious, however, 

 that even such tools could not be made without the 

 dislodgment of flakes and chips, some of which would 

 be capable of being utilised, and accordingly a few 

 remnants of this kind w r ere met with in the breccia, but 

 they were all of a very rude simple character, and do not 

 appear to have been improved by being chipped." l 

 Above the breccia is the cave-earth, in which flint 



FIG. 62. Oval Implement, Cave-earth, Kent's Hole, . 



implements are by far more numerous and of a higher 



Journal of the Plymouth Institution } February 18, 1875, pp. 17, 18. 



