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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. vn. 



Human Remains in the Cave of Duruihy. 



One of the best examples of the discovery of human 

 bones, of the Cave-men, is offered by the cave of 

 Duruthy, explored by MM. L. Lartet and Chaplain- 

 Duparc, in 1874, 1 which is of very high importance 

 also in other respects. The cave is situated on a rocky 

 promontory of nummulitic limestone, near Sorde, in the 

 Western Pyrenees, overlooking the junction of the Gave 

 d'Oleron and Gave de Pau, two tributaries of the Adour, 

 and is hollowed in the nummulitic limestone. The undis- 



FIG. 88. Section of Duruthy Cave. 



turbed strata which it contained were in the following 

 order (Fig. 88) : On the rocky floor was a layer of red 



1 Mate'riaux, 1874, p. 101 et seq. Bull Anthrop. Soc. de Paris, ix. 

 p. 516 et seq. 



