ON KEN'l’S CAVERN, DEVONSHIRE. 5 
matter of this kind found in a single day was sufficient to fill a very large 
basket. 
The following specimens of flint and chert, found in the Long Arcade since 
the end of August 1873, belong to the Cave-earth era :— 
No. 6304 is merely a flint chip so angular as to render it improbable that 
since its dislodgment from the nodule it has been in any way exposed to the 
action of flowing water. It was found in the first foot-level, with 2 teeth 
of Bear, bone chips (one of them being burnt), and 11 balls of coprolite, on 
December 13, 1873. 
No. 6324, found December 30th, 1873, in the second foot-level, beneath 
the Floor of Granular Stalagmite from 2 to 2°5 feet thick, is a very symmetrical 
tongue-shaped tool, fashioned with much labour out of a chert nodule, and is 
worked to an edge all round the perimeter except at the butt-end, where 
portions of the original surface remain on both faces. It is 3°8 inches long, 
2°3 inches in greatest breadth, 1-5 inch in greatest thickness, and convex on 
both faces, from each of which several flakes have been struck. Its era can- 
not be determined with perfect accuracy, since it occurred at or near the 
junction of the Cave-earth and the Breccia, where, unfortunately, they were 
not separated by Stalagmite. The fact that it was fashioned out of a 
nodule and not out of a flake, suggests that it belonged to the Breccia; and 
this finds some support from its occurrence in the second foot-level, for though 
the Cave-earth occasionally attained this depth in the inner part of the 
Arcade, it did so but rarely. On the other hand, its symmetrical outline and 
comparatively high finish are equally suggestive of the Cave-earth or less 
ancient period. 
The presence of man in the Cave-earth of the Arcade was also indicated by 
several bones having the appearance of the action of fire. Specimens of this 
kind were met with on six different occasions. 
Without including those found in the materials dislodged by their pre- 
decessors, the Committee have met with a total of 27 implements of flint 
and chert in Cayve-earth which they found intact in the Long Arcade. 
From the end of August 1873 to the end of July 1874 a considerable 
number of bones and 149 teeth of Bear, but no known remnant or indication 
of any other kind of animal, were found in the Breccia in the Arcade, making 
a total of about 200 teeth of this genus met with in this oldest deposit of the 
Cayern deposits, so far as is known at present, in the branch of the Cavern 
now under notice. Though several good specimens were obtained, none of 
them require special remark or description. 
The same deposit yielded 10 tools, flakes, and chips of flint and chert 
during the year just closed. 
No. 6186 is a chert pebble, displaying some chipping, but not sufficient to 
convert it into a useful tool. It was found in the third foot-level, without 
any other object of interest, September 2, 1873. 
No. 6192 is a rude flake of flint, retaining a portion of the original surface 
of the nodule, and distinctly showing the “bulb of percussion.” It was 
found alone, in the fourth or lowest foot-level, September 10, 1873. 
No. 6201, a chert pebble, which has undergone some chipping and pro- 
bably subsequent rolling, was found by itself in the second foot-level, Sep- 
tember 18, 1873. 
No. 6204 is simply a chip which has the appearance of having been arti- 
ficially struck off a flint nodule, the original surface of which it retains on 
one face. It was found, with a few fragments of bone, in the third foot-level, 
September 23, 1873. 
