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rather the breccia, the lowest of them, also yielded evidences of 
human existence; but they were cxclusively tools made from 
nodules, not flakes, of flint and chert. 
Ansty’s-Cove Cavern.—About three furlongs from Kent’s Hole 
towards N.N.E., near the top of the lofty cliff forming the northern 
boundary of the beautiful Ansty’s Cove, Torquay, there is a cavern 
where, simultaneously with those in Kent’s Cavern, Mr. MacEnery 
conducted some researches, of which he has left a brief account (see 
Trans. Devon. Assoc. vi. pp. 61—69). 1 have visited it several 
times, but it seems to be frequently kept under lock and key, as a 
tool and powder-house, by the workmen in a neighbouring quarry. 
It is a simple gallery, and, according to Mr. MacEnery, 63 feet long, 
from 3 to 9 feet high, and from 3 to 6 feet broad. Beneath some 
angular stones he found a stalagmitic floor 14 inches thick, and in 
the deposit below remains of Deer, Horse, Bear, Fox, Hyena (?), 
coprolites, a few mariue and land shells, one white flint tool with 
fragments of others, a Roman coin, and potsherds. In a letter to 
Sir W. C. Trevelyan, dated 16th December, 1825, Dr. Buckland 
states that Mr. MacEnery had found in this cave “ bones of all sorts 
of beasts, and also flint knives and Roman coins; in short, an open- 
mouthed cave, which has been inhabited by animals of all kinds, 
quadruped and biped, in all successive generations, and who have 
all deposited their exuviz one upon another” (cbid. p. 69). 
Yealm- Bridge Cavern.—About the year 1882 the workmen broke 
into a bone-cavern in Yealm-Bridge Quarry, about one mile from 
the village of Yealmpton, and eight wiles E.S.E. from Plymouth; 
and through their operations it was so nearly destroyed that but a 
smal] arm of it remained in 1835, when it was visited by Mr. J. C. 
Bellamy, who at once wrote an account of it, from which it appears 
that, so far as he could learn, the cavern was about 30 feet below 
the original limestone surface, and was filled to from 1 foot to 6 feet 
of the roof (see Nat. Hist. S. Devon. 1839, pp. 86—105). In the 
same year, but subsequently, it was examined by Captain (afterwards 
Colonel) Mudge, who states that there were originally three openings 
into the cave, each about 12 feet above the River Yealm; that the 
deposits were, in descending order :— 
1. Loam with bones and stones . ‘ ees 
2. Stiff whitish cla ‘ r : - oe pa 
8. Sand A : : Z 4 5 5 Oct) fi 
4. Red clay : : 4 : : : . 85, 
5. Argillaceous sand. . : ; . 6to180 5, 
