Yol. 54.] ANKIVEKSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. XCV 



Caermarthenshire So far as I know, there has been no 



discovery of iN'eolithic remains in this cave. It was deemed by the 

 late Prof. E,olleston to be the most perfect instance of* a hyaena-den 

 he had met with, We found hyaena-bones in position, and their 

 coprolites in great quantities, apparently as fresh as though they 

 had been voided recently ; the other remains were similar to those 

 found in the Black E-ock and Caldy, but were more plentiful, in 

 good condition, and much scored by teeth-marks. In addition to 

 these ordinary cave-bones, I had the good fortune to find, under 

 rhinoceros-bones which were overlaid by stalagmite, a piece of bone, 

 whittled and rounded into the shape of an awl, lying alongside of 

 two flint-flakes, one of which had indubitably been manipulated ; 

 the other was a pebble which had been brokeu, whether by natural 

 or artificial means it is impossible to say ; these are in the Tenbj'" 

 Museum, and constitute the sole proof of the presence of Pleistocene 

 Man in West Wales discovered by me.' 



In addition to the animals given in my paper, he mentions the 

 following also as having been subsequently found : — Ursus arctos^ 

 U. spelceus, Canis vulpes, Felis spelcea, Cervus viegaceros, C. elaphusy 

 Bos primigenius, Bison jpriscus. 



This cavern is just on the fringe of the glaciated area in South 

 Wales, and was therefore probably occupied to a later time in the 

 Glacial period than those in the Yale of Clwyd, North Wales. 

 However, the abundance of drift-material in the valleys of the 

 neighbourhood and on the plains immediately to the north shows 

 that the area could not have been suitable for occupation by the 

 larger Pleistocene animals at the time of maximum glaciation. 

 l^OT could they have returned into the area after the submergence, 

 at the close of the Glacial period, of the plains now under the 

 waters of the Bristol Channel. The implements found below the 

 Mhinoceros-bones, and under the thick stalagmite floor, must there- 

 fore have belonged to Man occupying the area in an early part of the 

 Glacial period, for the cavern could not have been used as a den by 

 the hyaenas when the ground was almost perpetually covered with 

 snow, as it must have been here during much of the Glacial period. 



The Victoria Cave, Settle (Yorkshire). 



In his reports to the British Association, in 1874 and 1875, on 

 the explorations carried on in this cavern, Mr. Tiddeman has given, 

 in my opinion, satisfactory evidence to show that the cavern was 



