Wookey Hole. 475 



Parker, and Ayshford Sanford. Professor Dawkins 

 gives an admirable account of the work in his ' Cave 

 Hunting,' to which I must refer my readers for a num- 

 ber of interesting and graphic details. When first 

 opened in 1852 'the workmen found more than 300 

 Roman coins, among which were those of Allectus and 

 Commodus.' As the work progressed year by year, and 

 the contents of the cave were cleared out and examined, 

 vast numbers of bones and teeth and horns were dis- 

 covered, under conditions which proved that they were 

 not introduced by water, but that the cavern had been 

 a veritable hyaBna den, which at intervals had also been 

 occupied by savage men, as the occurrence of charcoal, 

 calcined bones, and distinctly formed implements of 

 flint and chert clearly testified. All of these imple- 

 ments are of Palaeolithic type (see fig. 112, p. 540). 



To give an idea of the quantity of bones, Mr. Daw- 

 kins states that 'the remains obtained in 1862-3, from 

 3,000 to 4,000 in number, afford a vivid picture of the 

 animal life of the time in Somerset. They belong to 

 the following animals, the implements representing the 

 presence of Man : 



Man 35 Woolly Rhinoceros . . 233 



Cave-Hyaena . . . 467 Rhinoceros hemitsechus . 2 



Cave-Lion . . 15 Horse .... 401 



Cave-Bear . . .27 The Great Urns . . 16 



Grizzly Bear . . .11 Bison . . . .30 



Brown Bear . . .11 Cervus Megaceros . . 35 



Wolf . 7 Reindeer . . . .30 



Fox 8 Red Deer ... 2 



Mammoth . . .30 Lemming ... 1 



The remains of these animals were so intermingled, 

 that they must have been living at the same time.' I 

 cannot refrain from adding Mr. Dawkins' vivid descrip- 

 tion ' of the condition of things at the time the hyaena 



