Votes on the Discovery in Ireland of a Bone Cave, 235 
Nore FroM Mr. R. J. USSHER, OF CAPPAGH. 
I have just spent three days at the cave, excavating outside it. 
Monday was almost entirely consumed in removing the heap 
of rubbish we had thrown out last month. In doing this we found 
some bones that were then overlooked, among them a very large 
phalang, and a terminal toe point or talon of bear. Yesterday 
and to-day we have been digging the deposits outside the en- 
trance. There are continuations of the side walls of the cave 
running outwards for some distance. 
The upper stratum is dark earth, under which comes a lighter 
layer. Under that, huge blocks of stalagmite, extending at least 
ten feet outwards from the entrance of the cave. They were dis- 
connected, and coated with the pale sort of earth, No: 3 (?), in 
which they lay. One block measured three feet six inches by 
three feet, and was over a foot thick. At places near the sides 
on this level were deposits of gravel and pebbles. We have re- 
moved all these great blocks, and are now working downwards 
into the cave, out of which you can now walk on the level. We 
found bones in all the layers, chiefly at the sides and in crevices 
of the flanking walls. 
I got a bear’s canine yesterday in the upper horizon of the 
second (grey) stratum outside the cave. 
There are various teeth of ox and pig, numerous bits of bones 
of Irish elk, some of the latter split. 
I got a very ancient-looking bone (probably bear) among the 
blocks of stalagmite to-day, eleven feet outside entrance, very 
deep down. 
Charcoal iscon tinually occurring, even among blocks of stalag- 
mite, at four and a half feet below the surface. 
The most interesting find was a large flattened bead, of some 
transparent substance of the colour of brown sherry. It was 
found in the upper stratum, close to where we got the celt, an 
outline of which latter is given on the next page. 
A little farther in, at four or five feet deep, we got (with 
bones of Megaceros and charcoal) a number of lumps of rounded 
limestone, with pits like the eyes of a potato, One resembled a 
