12 REPOR'T—1874, 
The following specimens of flint and chert were also found in the Cave- 
earth in this branch of the Cavern :— 
No. 6378 is a mottled, grey, angular flake of chert, 2°3 inches long, 
1:5 inch broad, ‘3 inch thick, very concave on the inner face, and has had 
_ several flakes struck off the outer face. There is little or no evidence of its 
having been used, and it was found, with two specimens of plates of Elephant 
molars, 2 teeth of Bear, gnawed bones, 1 burnt bone, and 5 lumps of copro- 
lite, in the first foot-level, March 6, 1874. 
No. 6382, a small grey flint flake or chip, with the ‘‘ bulb of percussion 
strongly marked, was found in the first foot-level beneath a cake of stalag- 
mite 12 inches thick, with 3 teeth of Bear and 11 balls of coprolite, March 
11, 1874. 
No. 6384 is a rudely lanceolate flake of grey flint, 2-2 inches long, ‘9 inch 
in greatest breadth, 3 inch in greatest thickness, slightly concave on the inner 
face, reduced to an edge along both lateral margins, haying two ridges 
extending its entire length on the outer face, and has been but little, if at 
all, used. It was found, with 4 teeth of Bear, fragments of bone, and a 
coprolite, in the first foot-level, March 13, 1874. 
No. 6390 is a small flint flake, 1-4 inch long, °8 inch in greatest breadth, 
‘3 inch in greatest thickness, slightly concave in both directions on the inner 
face, strongly carinated on the other, sharply truncated at each end, reduced 
to an edge on the lateral margins, one of which is broken or jagged, of a 
light drab colour on the surface and to some depth below it, but retaining 
the original almost black colour at the centre. It was found in the first 
foot-level beneath 10 inches of stalagmite, with 1 tooth of Bear, 2 fragments 
of burnt bone, and 4 lumps of coprolite, March 24, 1874. 
No. 6399 is a nearly white flint of fine texture, 29 inches long, varying 
from ‘7 to ‘9 inch broad, °5 inch in greatest thickness, sharply truncated at 
the butt-end, round-pointed and blunt at the other, sharp and unworn at the 
lateral margins, longitudinally concave on the inner face, and having a 
strong central ridge on the other extending from the butt-end nearly two 
thirds of its length, where it bifurcates in consequence of the dislodgment 
of a small flake, which has left an uneven surface. At the butt-end there is 
on one of the slopes a portion of the original surface of the nodule about an 
inch long, and the “bulb of percussion” is well developed near the point. 
It was found, with 2 fragments of bone and 2 lumps of coprolite, in the first 
foot-level beneath a layer of Granular Stalagmite 24 inches thick, on April 
1, 1874. 
No. 6435 is a grey flint flake, 1:5 inch long, -7 inch broad, °35 inch in 
greatest thickness, which it attains along one of its lateral margins, sharply 
truncated at one end, round-pointed and blunt at the other, where, on the 
inner face, the “‘ bulb of percussion” presents itself, reduced to a thin edge 
along one of its lateral margins, where there are indications of its having 
been used as a scraper. On its outer face it has, for a short distance near 
the middle of its length, a central ridge which bifurcates towards each end. 
It was found in the first foot-level on May 28, 1874. 
Nothing was met with in the Crystalline Stalagmite; but the Breccia 
beneath it yielded remains of Bear as usual, including numerous bones 
and fragments of bone and 91 teeth, but, so far as is known, no trace of 
any other animal. 
The following specimens of flint and chert were also met with in this 
oldest of the Cavern deposits :— 
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