10 REPORT — 1875. 



nor in the same continuous plane. There can be little doubt that it was 

 intended to be a somewhat pointed ovoid tool, and that had it been perfected it 

 would have been more symmetrical in form than the Breccia tools are usually. 

 Its colour is whiter than that of most of the implements found in the same 

 deposit, in which respect, as well as in its shape and the absence of any trace 

 of the original surface, it closely resembles the implement No. 6103, found 

 in the " Long Arcade," 7th May, 1873, and described in the Ninth Report 

 (1873). This specimen was met with on 13th Api'il, 1875, in the second 

 foot-level of the Breccia, without any other object of interest near it, 47 feet 

 from the entrance of the Cave of Inscriptions. 



No. 6581 is a flint flake, struck from a rolled nodule, round at one end, 

 abruptly truncated at the other, and reduced to an edge along both lateral 

 margins. It is 2-2 inches in greatest length, 1-6 inch in greatest width, and 

 •6 inch in greatest thickness. The inner surface is very irregular ; the outer 

 has three longitudinal facets ; the lateral margins are somewhat sharp but 

 slightly jagged as if from use ; both ends are blunt, and the " but " retains the 

 original surface of the nodule. Its colour is the warm yellow so characteristic 

 of most of the specimens found in the Breccia ; but there are indications 

 that the interior is white. It was met with on 29tli Maj-, 1875, in the 

 second foot-level of the Breccia, 57 feet from the entrance of the Chamber. 



The Gully in the south-west corner of the Cave of Inscriptions, already 

 mentioned, was so narrow as to render it impossible to excavate the deposits 

 occupying it in " parallels," " levels," or " yards." The specimens found 

 in' it, however, were only 2 teeth of Bear, a few pieces of bone, and a 

 coprolite. 



The earlier explorers had, as usual with them, imperfectly examined the 

 material they dug up in this branch of the Cavern, and then thrown it on one 

 side. On taking it to the daylight the Committee found in it 19 teeth of Bear, 

 12 of Fox (of which 10 occupied portions of three lower jaws), 9 of Hyaena 

 (two of them being in part of a lower jaw), 2 of Horse, andl'of Rhinoceros, and 

 a large number of bones (some entire but most of them fragmentary), numerous 

 coprolites, a fragment of a marine shell, and 6 flakes and chips of flint. 



The exjiloration of the Cave of Inscriptions was completed on 14th June, 

 1875, having occupied the labour of between 8 and 9 months. 



The following is a list of the specimens found in it in undisturbed ground, 

 inclusive of those mentioned in the Tenth Report (1874) : — 



In the Granular, or least ancient, Stalagmitic Floor : 1 bone of Bat (?), a 

 few bones, a few patches of coprolite, and a bit of charcoal. 



In the Cave-earth : 27 teeth of Hyaena, several of them in jaws or parts of 

 jaws ; 11 of Bear ; 1 of a small rodent ; 1 jaw of Fox ; numerous bones and 

 fragments of bones, of which 6 had been charred and still more had been 

 gnawed ; a large number of " finds " of coprolites ; and 7 tools, flakes, and 

 chips of flint and chert. 



In the Breccia : 321 teeth of Bear, some of them in jaws and parts of 

 jaws ; 2 of Lion, in parts of an upper jaw ; and 20 implements and flakes of 

 flint and chert. 



The JRecess. — On completing the exploration of the Cave of Inscriptions, 

 operations were at once commenced in the Recess occupying its north- 

 western corner, which, as already stated, was expected to lead to a new 

 external entrance to the Cavern. The following are the grounds on which 

 this expectation was founded : — At the entrances at present known, on the 

 eastern face of the Cavern hill, and termed the " Triangular " and the 



