230 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.—1914. 
Lxploration of the Paleolithic Site known as La Cotte de St. 
Brelade, Jersey, during 1914.—Report of the Committee, con- 
sisting of Dr. R. R. Marerr (Chairman), Dr. A. Kerra, Dr. 
C. AnpREws, Dr. A. Dunuop, Mr. G. pz Grucuy, Col. R. 
GARDNER WARTON (Secretary), appointed to excavate a Palao- 
lithic Site in Jersey. 
Scheme of Operations. 
Tur Committee arranged with Mr. Ernest Daghorn, who had for the 
three previous years carried out the excavation of this site with signal 
success, that for the sum of 501. (being the full grant authorised by 
the British Association) he should supply throughout the months of 
March and April 1914, viz., for forty-eight working days, the services 
of three experienced quarrymen, while himself superintending their 
labours; that he should bear the responsibility for all accidents; 
and that he should furnish whatever tools or other appliances might 
be required for the work. The Committee has to thank Mr. Daghorn 
for having amply fulfilled all that was expected of him. The men 
worked with a will, and great intelligence was displayed in the 
execution of orders. 
Attention was exclusively directed to the main cave, already 
partially excavated by the Société Jersiaise in 1911 and 1912. Mean- 
while it was hoped that it might be found to extend round the back 
of the ravine, up to now masked by talus, and so to be continuous 
with the smaller cave opposite, which Messrs. Marett and de Gruchy 
uncovered in 1913. Hitherto exploration of the main cave had been 
confined to the outer or western side, where the roof ig somewhat 
lower and the pile of superincumbent débris consequently less. As 
the side contiguous with the back of the ravine is approached, the 
mass overlying the paleolithic floor and reaching up to the roof passes 
from about twenty-five to some forty feet of thickness; so that for 
every square foot of floor to be cleared an amount of material weighing 
approximately a ton has to be removed. It was now decided to tackle 
this heavier part of the task and, as far as might be possible in the 
time, to carry the clearing right across the mouth of the cave to 
whatever might prove to be its inner or eastern limit. 
For the first three weeks the attack concentrated on the upper 
portions of the cave-filling, the extreme top being demolished by a 
successful piece of blasting which brought down some eighty tons. 
The ultimate aim being to open up the floor outwards from a line 
running parallel to the mouth about eighteen feet from it, it was 
necessary to cut back the higher portions of the detritus to the extent 
of another ten or twelve feet, so as to provide some sort of slope, and 
thus minimise the result of sudden downfalls. This was done without 
revealing either the true back of the cave or the supposed chimney 
through which the clay and rock-rubbish, other than what is due to 
roof-collapse, must have descended. It may be noted, however, that 
a tentative excavation on the further or northern side of the cliff into 
