J. MAGENS MELLO ON THE BONE-CAVES OF CRESWELL CRAGS. 579 



31. The Bone-caves o/Creswell Crags. — 3rd Paper. By the llev. 

 J. Magens Mello, M.A., F.G.S., &c. (Read April 11, 1877.) 





Contents. 



Introduction. 





10. Chamber G. 



A. The Robin-Hood Cave. 





11. Terminal Fissure. 



1. The Talus. 





B. The Church Hole. 



2. The Surface-Soil. 





1. The Talus. 



3. The Breccia. 





2. Deposits in Interior 



4. The Cave-Earth. 





3. The Breccia. 



5. The Mottled Bed. 





4. The Cave-Earth. 



6. The Red Sand. 





5. The Mottled Bed. 



7. The Original Floor. 





6. The Red Sand. 



8. Chamber C. 





7. Chamber B. 



9. Chambers J) and E. 



Introd 



Conclusion. 

 action. 



It will be remembered that on two previous occasions the history 

 of the Creswell-Caves Exploration has been brought before the 

 Society, on the latter of which the results of the work were given 

 up to the close of 1875. 



During the early part of last summer the exploration has been 

 carried on under the auspices of a Committee, consisting of Sir J. 

 Lubbock, M.P., F.R.S., as President, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. 

 (Secretary), F. Longdon (Treasurer), Prof. G. Busk, F.R.S., W. 

 Bragge, F.G.S., R. D. Darbiskire, B.A., F.G.S., J. Evans, F.R.S., 

 A. W. Franks, F.R.S., Rooke Pennington, LL.B., F.G.S., Prof. Prest- 

 wich, F.R.S., and the Rev. J. M. Mello, M.A., F.G.S. (Director and 

 Reporter), Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins and T. Heath, F.R.H.S., being 

 Superintendents. 



It will hardly be necessary to do more by way of recapitulation 

 than just allude to the first papers read, which have established the 

 fact that we have at Creswell a series of highly important caves, 

 illustrating by their contents two periods of human occupation 

 during the Pala3olithic age in Britain, when man was contemporarj^ 

 in Derbyshire and the adjoining district with the characteristic 

 Pleistocene fauna. The remains of animals belonging to this fauna, 

 in great abundance and representing a remarkably large number of 

 species, have been found in these caves, in conjunction with quartzite 

 and flint implements of two different types : — the one ruder than the 

 other and underlying it, corresponding in character to the rude im- 

 plements of the Lower Breccia of Kent's Hole and of the river-gravels ; 

 the upper series of implements being of a somewhat more finished 

 type, and in general form agreeing with those assigned by M. Mor- 

 tillet to the age of Solutre, and which have been found in this 

 country in the cave-earth of Kent's Hole and in Wookey Hole*. 



It was thought advisable to carry on the exploration of the two 



* Vide Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxii. p. 255. 



