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aud the penknife, mentioned already, were flakes and chips of flint and 

 chert, of which there were nine : — 



No. 7,207, found, with one tooth of Bear, in the fourth foot-level, 

 August 8, 1878. 



No. 7,211, found, with one tooth of Bear and one bone, in the fourth 

 foot-level, September 18, 1878. 



No. 7,219, found, with one piece of bone, in the fourth foot-level, 

 October 5, 1878. 



No. 7,220, found alone, in the fourth foot-level, October 9, 1878. 



No. 7,224, found alone, in the fourth foot-level, October 25, 1878. 



No. 7,225, found alone, in the third foot-level, October 29, 1878. 



No. 7,226, fonnd alone, in the fourth foot-level, October 30, 1878. 



No. 7,232, found alone, in the third foot-level, November 9, 1878. 



No. 7,256, found alone, in the fourth foot-level, January 9, 1879. 



Compared with the numerous fine implements found, from time to 

 time, in other parts of the Cavern, none of the specimens in the foregoing 

 list are in themselves of much importance or interest. They are all 

 more or less porous, and adhere to the tongue when applied to it. 



No. 7,211 measures l - 8 inch long and broad, and 0"4 inch in greatest 

 thickness. Its inner face is slightly concave : whilst the outer, produced 

 by the dislodgment of five flakes, is convex. Its margin, elsewhere 

 rudely curvilineal, is on one side almost a chisel-like edge, but somewhat 

 broken. 



No. 7,224 is a leaf-shaped flake, bluntly pointed at one end, and 

 obliquely truncated at the other. The inner face is saved by the ' bulb 

 of percussion ' from being quite flat ; whilst the outer has a strong, nearly 

 central, curvilineal ridge. There appear some indications on its edges of 

 its having been used as a tool, and it has perhaps undergone a slight 

 amount of rolling. It measures 3*1 inches long, l - 8 inch in greatest 

 breadth, and 07 inch in greatest thickness. 



No. 7,232 is rudely rhombohedral in form. The inner face is slightly 

 concave, and has a ' bulb of percussion ; ' the outer is convex, and formed 

 by the dislodgment of three flakes, leaving as many parallel longitudinal 

 areas, the central one being broad compared with those on each side of it. 

 This specimen may also perhaps have been slightly rolled. 



Including those reported last year (Report, British Association, 1878, 

 pp. 128-9) the ' finds ' met with in the High Chamber amounted to 

 ninety-four in number, and contained 119 teeth of Bear, one tooth of 

 Horse, one of Fox, numerous bones and bone-fragments, one flint nodule 

 tool, eleven flakes and chips of chert and flint, and one quartzite pebble. 



Tour Committee remarked last year that the flint specimens occurred 

 in the third and fourth foot-levels only (op. cit., p. 129). It will be seen 

 from the list given above that this was also the fact with regard to the 

 similar specimens found since. In short, of the twelve specimens of flint 

 and chert found from first to last in the High Chamber, none occurred in 

 the first or second foot-levels, four were met with in the third level, and 

 eight in the fourth, or lowest foot-level, to which the excavation was 

 carried. 



The Sivallmv Gallery. — The branch thrown off towards the south from 

 the inner end of the High Chamber, as stated above, has a total length 

 of about 50 feet, and consists of two Reaches, the first extending south- 

 wards about 26 feet, where the Gallery turns sharply eastward, and 



