274 FOOTPRINTS OF VANISHED RACES IN CORNWALL. 



J. H. Collins/" will be read by all stTidents with great interest 

 and profit. Now, in the stream-tin dejiosits at Red-moor in the 

 parish of Lanlivery, flints of considerable size have been dis- 

 covered.*^ These might have been formed by Palaeolithic man, 

 and perhaps were left by him lying on the ground, so that they 

 were taken tip and carried along by the rush of tumultuous 

 waters which deposited our stream-tin beds, and finally left 

 buried deep in the detrital tin deposits. It is to be hoped, that 

 all who in the future find flints in Cornwall, will carefully observe 

 four things connected with these fragments. First, their geo- 

 graphical situation. Secondly, their geological position, — whether 

 they lie in the Head, Raised Beaches, or inland. If inland, it 

 will be necessary to note whether they lie on the surface or at 

 some depth, and by what stones they are surrounded. Thirdly, 

 their size, for this is most important. Fourthly, their form, which 

 must be compared with others. 



But the presence of Palaeolithic man in Cornwall may also be 

 • inferred from the discovery of his remains and relics in Devon- 

 shire. In 1887, in a fissure at Cattedown at Plymouth, the bones 

 and skulls of fifteen human beings of both sexes were found, side 

 by side with the remains of the lion, hyaena, and rhinoceros.''" As 

 some of these human remains lay at the lowest level in the 

 fissure, and as they were in the same chemical condition as the 

 bones of the extinct mammalia, with which they were confusedly 

 intermingled, the Palaeolithic age of these human skulls and 

 bones seems to be fully established. In Kent's cave, also, human 

 relics, such as pins and harpoons of bone, have been found in the 

 cave-earth and black-band, along with the bones of the same 

 Palaeolithic mammalia.*'^ These discoveries, as well as others, 



40. Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, vol. xii, 1893-5, pp. 64—75. 

 Mr. Collins considers these beds to be of Post-Tertiary age. 



41. Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, vol. iv, 1873, p: 215. 



42. The able reasoning- of Mr. R. N. Worth, in his most valuable account of 

 this discovery in Transactions of the Devonshi7-e Association for 1887, proves the 

 Pateolithic age of these human bones. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Robert 

 Burnard for further information on this matter. I visited the fissure shorlly after its 

 discovery. Ihe remains are now in the museum of the Plymouth Institution. Mr. 

 Worth also described these remains in the Transactions oj the Royal Geological 

 Society of Cornwall, 1887. 



43. These bone harpoons and pins are described and figured by Sir John livans 

 in Ancient Stone Implements (iwA editiony* pp. 505, 506. 



