6 REPORT — 1877. 



in previous lleports. Tho following, however, deserve more than a passing 

 notice : — 



No. 6895 is a small, delicately-proportioned, white, flake tool, 1*75 inch 

 long, -6 inch in greatest width, which it retains for about two thirds of its 

 length, and # 2 inch in greatest thickness. Both its ends are blunt, but its 

 edges are sharp ; the inner face is almost flat, whilst the outer is strongly 

 ridged. It was found in the first " foot-level," with 6 teeth of Bear and 1 of 

 Mammoth, on 1st November, 1876, and is undoubtedly a true Cave-earth 

 implement. 



No. 6929 is an irregular rolled flint nodule, from which two flakes have 

 boon dislodged since it ceased to be exposed to any action capable of scratching 

 its facets or injuring its edges. It is about 2-5 inches long, 1*4 inch in 

 greatest breadth, 1-1 inch in greatest thickness, and was found, without any 

 object of interest near it, in the Breccia, or lowest known deposit, in the 

 fourth or lowest " foot-level," on 17th November, 1876. It has the dark, 

 manganic smutty surface which occasionally characterizes the Breccia tools. 



No. 6943 is a white flake implement, 2-2 inches long, "5 inch in greatest 

 breadth, and -3 inch in greatest thickness. It is broadest at one end, whence 

 it gradually tapers towards the other, but is somewhat scimitar-shaped in 

 outline, and has lost its point. It is nearly flat on one face, but is strongly 

 ridged on the other, whence three longitudinal flakes have been dislodged, 

 and its lateral margins are thin and sharp. It was found on 28th November, 

 1876, in tho Cave-earth, in the first " foot-level," with relics of Bear, Elephant, 

 and Hysena. 



No. 6986 is a white flake, 1 inch long, -6 inch wide, and "2 inch in greatest 

 thickness. It is a parallelogram in outline ; slightly convex on the inner 

 face, doubly ridged on the outer ; quite thin at the lateral margins, one of 

 which is somewhat notched, from which the other is free ; thick at each end, 

 and is in all probability the central portion of a tool of greater length. It 

 was found with 4 teeth of Bear, 1 of Hyama, and pieces of bono, on 30th 

 December, 1876, iu the first " foot-level," and belongs to tho Cave-earth 

 series. 



No. 6997 is a cherty flint nodule implement, 3-2 inches long, 2-5 inches in 

 greatest breadth, and 1*8 inch in greatest thickness. It may be described as 

 a somewhat sharply-pointed, rudely heart-shaped tool, retaining some of its 

 original surface as a rolled nodule. It was found on 10th January, 1877, 

 in the second " foot-level," without any object of interest near it, in the 

 Breccia, and is characteristic of that deposit. 



No. 7040 is a very rough specimen, 2-75 inches long, 1-6 inch in greatest 

 breadth, and *95 inch in greatest thickness. It retains remnants of the 

 original surface of the nodule, and was found in the Breccia, in tho first 

 "foot-level," without any object of interest near it, on 5th March, 1877. 



No. 7059 is 2 inches long, 1-1 inch in greatest breadth, and •(> inch in 

 greatest thickness. It is irregularly convex on each face, pointed at one 

 end and rounded at the other, and retains traces of the original surface of 

 the nodule. It was found in tho Breccia, in the second " foot-level," without 

 any object of interest near it, on 15th March, 1877. 



A column or pillar of stalagmite was met with in November 1870, 

 adjacent to the cast wall of the Bear's Den, and about 22 feet from its 

 northern end, under the following peculiar circumstances : — It measured 

 about 51 inches in basal circumference and 3-75 feet in height. The base was 

 of nondescript outline, but everywhere above it the pillar was rudely ellip- 

 tical in horizontal section, and it measured 30 inches in girth at the height 



