ON Kent's cavern, DJivoNsmuE. 



(No. 6570) contains all its teeth except the inner incisor ; but, as is com- 

 monly the case with lower jaws of the era of the Cave-earth, it has lost its 

 lower border and condyles, and is much gnawed. It was found 14th May, 

 1875, Avith 1 loose canine tooth of the same species, 4 teeth of Bear, and a 

 few fragments of bone. The other jaw of Hyaena (No. 6577) has lost the 

 two inner incisor teeth and the condyles, and is slightly gnawed, but is 

 otherwise entire. It -was found on 24th of the same month, with 1 loose 

 tooth of Hyajua, 1 of Bear, and a fragment of bone. The flint flake (No. 

 6582), found 1st June, 1875, probably belonged to the Breccia, but was of 

 but little importance. 



There were found in the Breccia 82 teeth of Bear, some of them in jaws 

 or parts of jaws ; 2 of Lion, in a portion of right upper jaw ; numerous bones 

 and pieces of bone, including part of a skull and several other good specimens ; 

 and 13 implements, flakes, and chips of flint and chert (Nos. 6525, 6532, 

 6540, 6547, 6550, 6552, 6561, « jioy « Ay- 6565, 6573, 6581, and 6590). 

 The Lion's teeth (No. 6518) are the last two molars. The sockets of the 

 canine tooth and of the small tooth immediately behind it still exist, and 

 every thing betokens an animal of great size. The specimen, to which a 

 considerable quantity of the Breccia adheres, is peculiarly interesting as being- 

 found in a deposit in which careful methodical research, continued for years, 

 had failed to detect any other osseous remains than those of Bear, with but one 

 exception — that, as already stated, being also the lower jaw of a Lion, 

 found less than two months before. This interesting relic was met with on 

 31st December, 1874, with 2 teeth of Bear, bones and fragments of bone, in 

 the second foot-level of Breccia. No feline remains have been detected 

 since that date. 



A few only of the Flint and Chert specimens require detailed description. 



No. 6550 js an implement made out of a well-rolled chert nodule. It is 

 somewhat semilunar in form, but broader at one end than the other, and 

 measures about 4-4 inches in length, 2-3 inches in greatest width, and 

 25 inches in greatest thickness, Avhich it attains near the broader or but-end. 

 It has undergone a considerable amount of chipping, has been reduced to an 

 irregular edge along the greater part of its perimeter, and is comparatively 

 thin at the more pointed end. It is very, but \mequally, convex on both 

 faces, each of which has a central ridge, and retains the original surface of the 

 nodule over the whole of the but-eud, whence a trace of it extends along the 

 central ridge of the less convex face to about an inch from the point. The 

 portion of the surface which has been chipped is of a yellowish hue, derived, 

 no doubt, from the matrix in which the specimen lay. This, however, is 

 but a superficial stain, as there are indications of an almost white colour 

 within. This fine implement was found 15th February, 1875, between the 

 Hedges Boss and the left wall of the Cave, 36 feet from its entrance, in 

 the second foot-level below the surface (that is, in the uppermost foot-level 

 of the Breccia), having no other object of interest near it. 



No. 6565 is a chert implement 3-7 inches long, 2-7 inches in greatest 

 breadth, and 1-7 inch in greatest thickness, which it attains not far from 

 its centre. It has tmfortunately lost one of its extremities, apparently 

 broken off whilst the tool was being made. It is very, perhaps equally, 

 convex on each face, but the centres of convexity are not opposite one 

 another ; and though obviously made from a nodule, not a flake, no j^art of 

 the original surface remains. A considerable amount of work has been 

 expended on it, and it has been reduced to an edge all round the perimeter 

 except at the broken end. The marginal edge is neither keen, nor regular, 



