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of the cave-filling — labour which, however, has rendered it probable 

 that the work can be brought to a finish next year. On the other 

 hand. Working A proved fairly rich up to the point to which it was 

 carried — namely, 53 feet from, the entrance ; and the archaeological spoil 

 is of considerable value. 



Bane. — Bone was plentiful, but in a bad state owing to damp. 

 It was distributed in pockets, in one case a magma of bone-fragments, 

 mostly of reindeer and horse, occupying a space of some two cubic 

 feet. The best specimens have been forwarded to the British Museum, 

 where they still await full determination. A large and complete tine 

 from the antler of a deer shows striations which are seemingly due to 

 human use, if hardly human design. A well-developed rodent bed 

 occurred beyond the 50-foot line at an unexpectedly high level, and 

 may turn out to have stratigraphical value when this part of the bed is 

 more thoroughly excavated. Three fresh species of rodents have 

 already been determined from this year's finds. 



Stone Implements. — As regards flint, out of 803 pieces no less 

 than 610 showed signs of use, and of these 420 were trimmed, including 

 33 implements of first quality. Among the implements of second 

 quality, to adopt the classification already employed (see Archceologia, 

 Lxvii., 97/), 43 are long flakes with two trimmed side-edges, 89 long 

 flakes with one trimmed side-edge, 84 square, 25 hollowed, none 

 curved, 1 sharpened, 25 keeled, 39 discoidal, and 81 dwarf. Whereas 

 in the outer portions of the cave the ratio of trimmed to untrimmed 

 pieces was less than one in three, at the back it was about equal, 

 presumably because most of the knapping responsible for the flint 

 refuse was done near the entrance where the light was good. As 

 regards stone other than flint, of 311 hammer-stones (182 being of 

 granite and 129 of greenstone) nearly all showed signs of use, while 

 175 were more or less fractured. Such hammer-stones, to use the 

 term without prejudice, occurred chiefly in conjunction with the pockets 

 of bone-fragments. It is a remarkable fact that whereas the ratio of 

 such hammer-stones to the flint pieces was but 5f per cent, in the 

 outer part of the cave, here at the back it actually amounted to 37^ per 

 cent. Evidently the back of the cave served some speciahsed use, 

 possibly a culinary one, which brought these pebbles into play. It may 

 be noted that 63 per cent, of the hammer-stones from this Mousterian 

 cave are 40-80 mm. long (700 being measured), whereas from the 

 Neolithic kitchen-midden of Le Pinacle in Jersey 64i per cent, v^ere 

 below 40 mm. in length (600 being measured), the inference perhaps 

 being that the later people had smaller or weaker hands. A selection 

 of the 1916 implements is being presented, with the consent of the 

 Soci^t^ Jersiaise, to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. 



Acknouledgments . — The Chairman and Secretary were in charge of 

 the work throughout. Mr. E. de J. F. Struthers, M.A., B.Sc, Mrs. 

 Holland and her son, Mrs. Jenkinson and Miss Moss came from 

 Oxford and rendered invaluable aid. Many local helpers also assisted, 

 notably Mr. E. T. Nicolle, Mr. H. J. Baal, Mr. E. F. Guiton, and 

 Mr. G. Le Bas, B.Sc. Mr. E. Daghorn, the contractor, showed his 

 usual skill, taking risks freely, and, indeed, twice narrowly escaping 



