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different textural condition, belonging to domestic animals, to man, and 

 to certain ferce naturae still existing either in Great Britain or in Conti- 

 nental Europe which will be next specified. The steep slope of the part 

 of the cave in which they were found would render the disturbance of 

 them, and the interminglement of them with subsequent importations an 

 easy matter, whether the disturbing agent was the sea in a period of 

 subsidence, or rain in a pluvial period, or, finally, man himself in his 

 successive occupations of the cave. 



No remains of hyaenas were found by us amongst these palaeolithic 

 bones ; but the marks of gnawing, which are conspicuous enough npon 

 many of these bones, are so closely similar to those produced by the 

 teeth of this carnivore elsewhere, that it is difficult to think they are 

 not to be ascribed to it ; and the more so as in other caves in this dis- 

 trict the hyaena is very abundantly represented both by bones and by 

 album grcecum. 



Most of the bones referable to the mammoth or rhinoceros are spongy 

 and waterworn ; some combining the traces of gnawings with those of 

 waterwear. Some, on the other hand, have received much accession to 

 their weight and solidity, and have also become curiously polished on 

 their exterior by exposure to calcareous drip. 



In the north cave and in its eastern diverticulum the remains of bear,, 

 roe, red deer, eagle, and black grouse were found, all being animals 

 which, without being extinct in Europe, or being foreign in strictness of 

 language to this part of it, would yet not be very likely to find their way 

 into this care in the present day. Of the bear species, Ursus Arctos, three 

 individuals are represented by the bones and teeth found here. 



Throughout the length and breadth of the cave, from its communica- 

 tion with the south cave to its northern opening, and in the talus lying 

 outside this opening, were found bones of domesticated animals, goat, 

 small ox, dog, pig. In the talus outside the north entrance some pelvic 

 bones were found, which I think are sheep and not goat bones. In the 

 same locality a nearly perfect skull of a goat was found. Some of the 

 domesticated animal bones appear to have been but of recent date, but a 

 great number bear marks in the way of weathering and of staining of a 

 very considerable antiquity. They represent breeds of small size. 



The horse is, though but scantily, represented in the collection from 

 Longbury Cave ; and the wild boar we have failed to recognise here. 



The badger's, the fox's, and the rabbit's abound among the bones col- 

 lected here. The fox's represent a small variety. 



As regards the human remains, the great majority of them were found in 

 the segment of depression or in the southward termination of the north cave 

 immediately adjoining and continuous with it. Most of the human bones 

 found by Mr. Laws were in the latter locality ; most of those found by 

 us were found in the former ; but, either by Mr. Laws' or by us, human 

 bones or teeth were, though but in very small numbers, found in every 

 part of the cave, not excluding even the south cave. The numbers of 

 the several sets of fragmentary human bones may be given with some 

 approach to accuracy as follows : — In the entire cave, exclusive of the 

 depression segment, about 150 fragments of more or less perfect human 

 bones were found ; from the depression segment alone about 350 frag- 

 ments were collected ; into the talus outside the north entrance some 

 6 to 10 fragments of a child and of an adult had found their way ; a human 

 tooth was found in the east cave ; and a piece of a skull and of a lower 



