ON KEN’’S CAVERN, DEVONSHIRE. 9 
a skeleton buried or secreted there, of which all other portions had been 
earried off by some carnivore. 
The commingling of a few specimens of a more ancient type with the 
comparatively recent human and ovine remains was no doubt produced by 
Mr. Underhay’s diggings at the spot. 
Besides the foregoing specimens no object of interest was found in 
connexion with the Granular Stalagmite. 
The Cave-earth in Underhay’s Gallery yielded 2 balls of coprolite, numerous 
bones, and 94 teeth; of which 61 were those of Hyena, 22 of Horse, 4 of 
Rhinoceros, 4 of Fox, 1 of Bear, 1 of Lion, and 1 probably of Wolf. 
The following specimens of flint and chert were also met with in the Cave- 
earth :— ; 
No. 6234, a mere angular chip of drab-coloured flint, was found, with 
1 tooth of Hyzena and one of Rhinoceros, in the first foot-level, October 14, 
1873. 
Nos. gysy, gosy and gs*zy are three small fragments of flint (two of them 
angular and the third subangular), having no appearance of having been 
artificially formed, and were found, with 7 teeth of Hyena and 1 of Fox, 
part of a jaw of Fox, part of a skull, and a gnawed bone, in the first foot- 
level, November 10, 1873. 
No. 6289 is a small bit of flint, found, with 15 teeth of Hyena, 7 of Horse, 
1 of Bear, and a few bones, lying on the Cave-earth in the innermost part of 
the Gallery, beyond the point at which the Granular Stalagmite had thinned 
out. 
The Breccia in Underhay’s Gallery produced several bones, 115 teeth of 
Bear, and the following specimens of flint and chert :— 
No. 6220, an irregular flint chip, which has been somewhat rolled, was 
found, with three teeth of Bear and fragments of bone, in the second foot- 
level, October 30, 1873. 
No. gs571s apparently a flint “ core,” which retains a portion of the original 
surface of the nodule, and was found, with three teeth of Bear, also on 
October 30, 1873, and one foot below No. 6220. 
No. 37 1s a rolled flake of chert found with No. <34,. 
No. 6279 is a flake of chert still imbedded in the Breccia, and was found, 
with bone fragments, in the second foot-level, November 17, 1873. 
No. 6281 is a small flake of chert, found, with three fragments of teeth of 
Bear and pieces of bone, in the fourth foot-level, November 18, 1873. 
The Breccia in this Gallery also yielded a piece of iron-ore and a small 
piece of umber. 
The Inscribed Boss of Stalagmite—Though inscriptions exist in various 
parts of the Cavern, the huge mass of Stalagmite, standing at the point where 
the Long Arcade, the Cave of Inscriptions, and Clinnick’s Gallery meet, is, 
with the exception perhaps of the “Crypt of Dates”*, more thickly scored 
with names, initials, and dates than any other equal area within the Cavern. 
Indeed it seems to have been the spot where visitors usually left their 
names. Those alone who were sufficiently adventurous and expert to get 
beyond the “ Lake” could leave a proof of the fact in the Crypt. The Boss, 
which may be described as a frustum of an oblique cone, measures 43 feet 
in basal circumference and 14 feet along the slant side, which, forming an 
angle of 70° with the horizon, gives a vertical height of fully 18 feet. The 
cubic contents are probably not less than 630 cubic feet of Stalagmite. Its 
* See Report Brit. Assog. 1869, pp. 194-196, 
