194: REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. — 1915. 



The stature is very uniform — l"66ra. in all the villages. 

 A complete list of the materials available for the anthropological 

 history of Cyprus has been made. 



Exploration of the Palcdolithic Site known as La Cotte de St. 

 Brelade, Jersey. — Report of the Committee, consisting of 

 Dr. E. E. Marett (Chairman), Mr. G, F. B. de Gruchy 

 (Secretary), Dr. A. Keith, Dr. C. Andrews, Dr. A. 

 DuNLOP, Colonel E. Gardner Warton, and Mr. H. 

 Balfour. 



Report of Work done in July 1915. 



The following must be regarded purely as an interim report. It covers 

 only what was accomplished in July, whereas funds are available for 

 carrying on the work during at least another month. When Section H 

 meets in session, a supplementaiy report in MS. will be presented. 



This year there have naturally occurred many obstacles in the way 

 of archaeological research, and indeed it proved impossible to resume 

 operations at Easter, as had been originally intended. At the close of 

 the potato season, however, when the demand for labour temporarily 

 slackens in Jersey, there was at length forthcoming the required amount 

 of assistance of a manual kind, Mr. Ernest Daghorn being the contractor 

 as before. Nor, again, in the matter of skilled investigation, was it 

 easy to arrange for the sufficiently continuous attendance of a body of 

 helpers. Yet, despite the paramount claims of war-service, a staff was 

 enlisted who made up for any deficiency there might be in their 

 numbers by devotion and sheer staying-power. 



In 1911 excavation proceeded along the western side-wall of the 

 cave so as to bring to light a strip of palaeolithic floor extending some 

 25 feet inwards.^ It was decided this year to push still further back 

 along this line, and, if possible, to reach the hitherto undetermined 

 back of the cave. This is known as Working A. Further, in 1914 a 

 trench was carried right across from the western to the eastern 

 side-wall, a distance of about 40 feet. The portion of floor 

 thus opened up lay eight feet from the entrance, and when work ceased 

 last year, was flanked by precipitous walls of talus, that on the inner 

 side being about 45 feet high, while the outer one averaged 25 feet. It 

 was resolved, therefore, in regard to excavation in this direction, to 

 undertake first the relatively easy and safe task of demolishing the talus 

 on the outer side, and so clearing the cave along its whole breadth to 

 the entrance. This was termed Working B. Lastly, it was thought 

 desirable to attempt something on the inner side of the clearing, and 

 to push back cautiously along the eastern wall, at any rate so far as an 

 overhanging shelf of the live rock afforded some protection from the 



1 See Archceologia, Ixiii. 204, where plaats are given. 



