ON Kent's cavern, Devonshire. 205 



1873, yielded 25 flint implements and flakes, without counting those found 

 in Mr. MacEneiy's dislodged materials. Though many of them would have 

 attracted a large share of attention a few years ago, a description of a very 

 few will suffice at present : — 



No. 6082 is a light-grey flint having a sharp edge all round its perimeter. '"' -^ 

 It is nearly flat on one side, and sUghtly convex on the other, from which 

 four principal longitudinal flakes have been dislodged. It belongs to the lan- 

 ceolate variety of implements, is about 3-5 inches long, 1-2 inch in greatest 

 breadth, and -25 inch in thickness. It was found February 22ud, 1873, without 

 any animal remains near it ; and no stalagmite had ever covered the deposit 

 in which it lay. 



No. 6086 may be said to belong to the same type; but it is more massive, • v^" 



and is abruptly truncated at each end. It is 3-5 inches long, 1-6 inch ^i/ u^ 

 in greatest breadth, '0 inch thick, very concave on the inner face, on ' / 



which the " bulb of percussion " is well displayed near what may be termed 

 the point ; and the outer very convex face has been rudely fashioned. It does 

 not appear to have been used ; its edges are quite sharp and not serrated 

 or chipped. It was found March 4, 1873, with a tooth and a gnawed scapula 

 (No. 6086). 



As in all other parts of the cavern in which it has occurred, the Breccia 

 in the Long Arcade difli'ers from the Cave-earth not only in the mineral and 

 mechanical characters of its materials, as already pointed out, but also in the 

 absence of those films of stalagmite which so frequently invested bones and 

 stones at all levels in the less-ancient accumulation. 



The deposits resembled each other in being entirely destitute of any ap- 

 proach to a stratified arrangement ; and the incorporated fragments of stone 

 lay with their longest axes in every possible direction. 



Up to the end of August 1873 there had been found in the Breccia in the 

 Long Arcade upwards of fifty teeth, together with a considerable number of 

 bones, of Bear. As they were much more brittle than those found in the 

 Cave-earth, probably from their highly mineralized condition, and almost 

 invariably occurred where the materials were firmly cemented together, 

 it was impossible to prevent their being injured in the process of extraction. 

 Not unfrequently bones or teeth were found broken but having the parts in 

 contact and juxtaposition in the concrete, showing that they had been 

 broken where they lay and where they were found. Beyond a few teeth 

 still occupying portions of jaws, the remains did not lie in their natural ana- 

 tomical order ; and isolated teeth frequently presented themselves com- 

 pletely encased with Breccia. In no instance was there any thing like an 

 approach to the elements of a complete skeleton, or distinct portion of 

 one, lying together. 



The only noteworthy specimens are a left lower jaw (No. 6127) containing 

 two teeth, found June 18, 1873, and a palate (No. 6133) with the greater 

 part of the upper jaw, in which were four molars and the two canines. This 

 fine specimen was found June 25, 1873, and with it two other canines and a 

 few fragments of bone. 



It is perhaps worthy of remark that as no trace of Machairodits has 

 been found in either of the deposits since the Eighth Eeport (1872) was 

 presented, the Committee can only repeat that, so far as the evidence goes at 

 present, that great Carnivore was a member of the fauna of the Cave-earth 

 era, but not of that of the Breccia. 



In their Eighth Report (1872) the Committee stated that they had 



