206 KEPoiiT— 1873. 



found two flint implements (Nos. 5900 and 5903) in the Breccia in the 

 "Southern Branch" of the "Charcoal Cave;" and they pointed out the important 

 hearing of the fact on the question of Human Antiquity *. They have now 

 the pleasure of reporting the discovery, during the last twelve months, of 

 seventeen additional implements, flakes, and chij^s in the same deposit in the 

 Long Arcade; and they now propose to describe the most striking specimens. 

 No. 6022 is a fine kite-shaped flint tool, 5*1 inches long, 2-6 inches in 

 greatest breadth, and 2 inches in greatest thickness. On one side, especially 

 at the butt-end, it is very convex ; on the other it may be said to have a ten- 

 dency to flatness ; but as this inner face consists of two principal planes or 

 facets sloping in opposite directions from a transverse ridge about midway in 

 its length, the flatness is not strongly pronounced. At the butt-end, on the 

 convex face, it retains much of the original surface of the nodule, and shows 

 that it was made from a well-rolled pebble. The rest of the surface has a 

 somewhat orange-coloured ferruginous tint, derived, no doubt, from the 

 matrix in which it was found. On one or two small facets near the point, how- 

 ever, this tint does not appear, but the true whitish colour is displayed. A small 

 chip has been unfortunately struck from it by the tool of the workman and 

 thus displays the interior, which is of the same colour as the facets just 

 named, but diff'ers from them in being somewhat granular, whilst they are 

 quite smooth. "Within the substance of the implement and near the point 

 there is a small irregular quartz pebble, apparently the nucleus around which 

 the siliceous matter accumulated. This specimen was found on November 

 27, 1872, at a depth of 16 inches in the undisturbed Breccia under a block 

 of limestone measuring 24 x 14 x 14 inches, adjacent to the left wall of the 

 Arcade, and 73 feet from its entrance. No animal remains or other objects 

 of interest were found near it. 



No. 6025 may be described as a fine implement, rudely foot-shaped, 5-4 

 inches long, 2-5 inches in greatest breadth, and 1-7 inch in greatest thick- 

 ness. It has undergone a considerable amount of chipping, is very convex 

 on one face, has a tendency to flatness on the other ; and no portion of the 

 original surface of the nodule remains on it. It is of a yellowish drab colour, 

 and has a patina on the greater part of its surface. It was found on 

 December 9, 1872, not quite a foot deep in the Breccia, very near the left 

 wall of the Arcade, about 86 feet from its entrance, and without any animal 

 remains accompanying it. 



No. 6081 is an orange-coloured flint implement, rudely elliptical in out- 

 line, very massive, about 6 inches long, 3-7 inches in greatest breadth, 2 

 inches in greatest thickness, very convex on one face, with a tendency to 

 flatness on the other, has a great number of facets on each face, but with 

 portions of the original crust of the nodule here and there. On the flatter 

 face there is a rugged elliptical hole, nearly central, -9 inch long, -65 inch 

 broad, and '7 inch deep ; but instead of being artificial is structural, as the 

 original crust of the flint extends into it from a neighbouring patch on the 

 face of the tool. This specimen was found in the third-foot level of 

 Breccia, without any organic remains near it, on February 14, 1873, at 

 about 122 feet from the entrance of the Arcade. 



No. 6103 is a coarse chert tool about 4 inches long, 2*3 inches in 

 greatest breadth, 1-6 inch in greatest thickness, very convex on both faces, 

 and worked to an edge all round. A large amount of labour has been bestowed 

 in fashioning it; and no part of the original surface of the nodule remains. 

 It was found, without any animal remains near it, May 7, 1873, in the 

 * Eeport Brit. Assoc. 1872, pp. 43-44. 



