60 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



B. — Western Side. 



i n i i Ft. In 



1 . European beds, mostly cattle-dung ... ... 01 



2. Shell beds, like No. 3 in previous enumeration ... 11 



3. Ashes, tussocks, etc. ... ... ... ... 10 



4. Shell beds, often much decomposed ... ... 9 



5. Ash bed 



6. Ditto, mixed with shells 



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4 

 9 



Lower Series. 



7. Dirt and ash bed 



8. Agglomeratic bed 



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3 



5 



Tvr 4 G 



Marine sands proved to exist for about 3 feet below No. 8. 



Beside the shells, of which the bivalves were with very few exceptions 

 found only in single valves, pieces of wood (partly charred), portions of wooden 

 implements of Maori manufacture, plaitings, made of Phormium tenax, and 

 pieces of two broken polished stone implements, were collected, whilst close 

 to the bottom of the trench a few Moa bones were obtained, amongst which 

 several species were represented. 



On the top of the dirt bed immediately above the agglomerate a small 

 piece of a tibia of Meionornis casuarimis, bleached and much decomposed was 

 observed by me, which had been lying close to a well-preserved seal bone, 

 possessing the light brown colour the bones generally exhibited when exhumed, 

 thus suggesting that the Moa bone must have been brought into the cave fiom 

 the outside after having become bleached and partly decomposed. 



In order to test more fully the general character of the beds above the 

 agglomerate, I gave directions to the labourers to work backwards from the 

 cross trench, examining first the south-west corner of the cave, once more can- 

 tioning them to use the utmost care, and not to hurry over the examination. 



With this work we continued until 3rd October, when, after having looked 

 carefully over the specimens obtained, I could not divest myself of the convic- 

 tion that in and below the agglomeratic beds remains proving human occupa- 

 tion must be found. 



Amongst the objects obtained during the last few days, the workmen 

 having turned over deposits covering an area about 20 feet by 30 feet wide, 

 and advancing in a south-west direction, were some Moa bones, the leg bones 

 usually broken as for the extraction of the marrow, others of them calcined, 

 and all of them occurring only in the lowest bed. 



The r rrr-lying shell beds, as I shall call them in future, consisted princi- 

 pally of the usual remnants of shells, together with some seal bones belonging 



