76 report — 1877. 



These few facts serve to verify the general conclusions arrived at by former 

 observers, and, when more fully investigated and the fossils identified, will help to 

 correlate the Carboniferous of North Cornwall with the divisions now established 

 elsewhere. They serve, at least, to show that there are provinces in our local geology 

 still holding out temptations of further conquest to the geological explorer. 



Sketch of the Geology of the Coast from the Eame Head to the Bobb Tail. 



By W. Pengellt, F.R.8. 



On some Peculiar Stalactitic Formations from the Island of Antiparos. 



By J. S. Phene. 



On the Exploration of some Caves hi the Limestone Hills in Fermanagh. 



By T. Plunketx. 



In the caves were found a large quantity of human and animal remains, together 

 with rude flint inplements, bone and iron pins, and coarse pottery. Some of 

 these caves are found at an elevation of over uOO feet above the adjoining valleys, 

 showing the extraordinary waste of the surface of the country by the denuding 

 forces of ice and water. Before being explored they were almost filled to the roof 

 with cave-earth. 



After removing the upper stratum of dark earth in a cave which occurs in the Knock- 

 ninny hill in the south side of Fermanagh, a large cinerary urn was found placed in 

 a niche in the side of the cave, inverted on a flag and containing burnt human bones. 

 It stood 14£ inches high and 15 inches in diameter, and was devoid of any orna- 

 mentation save a few scratches made across the fine when the clay was soft. On 

 digging deeper down some angular blocks of stone were turned up which had 

 evidently fallen from the roof of the cave during its earlier history. Underneath 

 these blocks charcoal, human remains, bones of the wild boar, red deer, fox, 

 and short-horned Celtic cow were found. The cave-earth having been removed 

 five vertical feet below where the urn was found, a floor of stalagmite, highly 

 crystalline, was met with, underneath which an ancient hearth was found, together 

 with rude flint implements and broken pottery and portions of human skulls. The 

 human remains found in this cave were considered to be of very great antiquity. 



Cave No. 2 contained a vast quantity of cave-earth and gravel and penetrated an 

 escarpment on the side of a limestone hill. Layer after layer of cave-earth was 

 removed to a depth of 20 feet. Three floors of stalagmite were blasted Tip with 

 dynamite, and underneath every one of the floors human relics and animal remains 

 were found. Bone pins of various patterns were found in the lowest stratum of the 

 cave, and broken animal bones, charcoal, and rude pottery were found interspersed 

 through the whole of this mass of cave-earth from top to bottom. 



The exploration of several other caves which occur in the same locality was de- 

 scribed. These have yielded a quantity of flint flakes, rude pottery, and the bones 

 of the horse, wild boar, wolf, red deer, and remains of various other animals. In 

 one cavern a human jaw was found embedded in glacial clay and associated with 

 scratched stones. The entrance to this cave was in a steep limestone acclivity about 

 250 feet above the adjoining valley. The work is still going on, and Mr, Plunkett 

 expects to find objects of still greater interest. 



On the Junction of the Limestone and Culm-measures near Chudleigh. 

 By Clement Eeid, F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. 



_ Although there was little positive evidence of the relations between the Devonian 

 Limestone of Chudleigh and the Culm-measures, there were indications of con- 

 f ormability in the general arrangement of the strata, and in one instance evidence of 



