ON KEN’’S CAVERN, DEVONSHIRE. 55 
direction. Scarcely, however, had the exploration of the Western Division of 
the South-west Chamber commenced, when the spell was broken. 
On June 25, 1868, a good implement was found 2 feet deep in the Cave 
earth, in a small recess in the wall of the Chamber, and sealed up with the 
Modern Floor of Stalagmite 80 inches thick. Jt was found broken, appa- 
rently into four pieces, three of which have been recovered. Some of the 
fractured edges are coated with Stalagmite. It lay with a fine almost un- 
worn molar of bear, a molar of horse, and a few other teeth, one of which 
probably was that of a fox. 
On July 4, a second implement was found. This also was 2 feet deep 
in the Cave-earth, over which the Stalagmite was 32 inches thick. With it 
there were a few bones, and immediately below it, thirteen molars of horse, 
a canine of hyena, and a gnawed bone. ‘This specimen is of the Lanceolate 
type, and is one of the finest implements the Committee have found in the 
Cavern. It is barely 4:2 inches long, 1:2 in greatest breadth, and °5 inch 
in greatest thickness. It is strongly carinated, sharply pointed at one end, 
chisel-shaped at the other, and has a keen edge all round its perimeter. A 
great amount of labour appears to haye been expended in making it, but it 
probably had never been used since it was last “retouched.” It is of piebald 
flint, being partly white, and partly a dull drab. It was dug out in the pre- 
sence of one of the Superintendents, 
On July 10, a third implement presented itself. “This was 3 feet deep 
in the Caye-earth, over which was 24 inches of Stalagmite. It is a fine 
specimen, but scarcely equal to the second, which, excepting that it is not 
quite so broad, and that its wider end is not chisel-shaped, it resembles in 
size andin form. It is made of an almost uniformly white flint. 
On July 25, a fourth was met with in a recess in the wall of the Cavern, 
1 foot deep in the Caye-earth, having over it upwards of 7 feet of Stalagmitic 
Floor. It does not appear to have been so good a specimen as either of the 
two last mentioned, but on this point there is some uncertainty, as it was 
unfortunately broken by the workmen, who, notwithstanding a careful search, 
were unable to recover all the fragments. Judged from the exterior only, it 
would have been pronounced white flint ; but in consequence of the fracture 
it is seen that this colour is merely superficial, extending to a depth of about 
05 inch only, the interior being uniformly black. It was lying with eleven 
molars of horse, a sectorial tooth of hyzna, several bones and bone fragments, 
and a few small lumps of fecal matter. Judging from the character of its 
point, this implement was a “ borer.” 
Thus, within about a month, four flint implements, all of them good, and 
two of them very fine specimens, were found within a space of 5 feet, and 
from 140 to 150 feet from the nearest of the external entrances of the 
Cavern. They were attended by the usual accompaniments, and with the 
last of them the Cave-earth terminated in that direction, so far as is at pre- 
sent known. 
The Rock-like Breccia in this Division of the Chamber presented the ordi- 
nary characteristics, and calls for no special remark. 
In their Third Report (1867) the Committee called attention to the facts 
which, successively and slowly discovered, had led to the conviction that 
there was a Chapter in the history of the Cavern earlier than that represented 
by the Cave-earth. It has been already stated, and at some length, that 
further and most conclusive evidence on the point has presented itself during 
the year 1867-68. The case is of so much interest, so characteristic of 
Cavern researches, and so full of instruction and encouragement, that it 
