600 W. BOYD EAWKINS ON THE MAMMAL-FAUNA 



The spelaean bones measured (in inches) belong to the limbs of two 

 individuals which fell a prey to the Hyaenas, and by a rare chance 

 were not destroyed by their teeth. They were found in the Red 

 Sand. 



Mammoth. — The Woolly Elephant is represented by 8 teeth and 

 fragments belonging to adults, and by 38 teeth and fragments be- 

 longing to the young. The three oldest and largest teeth are first 

 true molars. 



The remains of the Hare and the Water-vole demand no special 

 notice, excepting that the numerous broken bones of the former 

 show that it was an important article of food with the palaeolithic 

 inhabitants of the cave during the accumulation of the upper Cave- 

 earth and the breccia. 



E. Remains of Historic and Prehistoric (?) Age. 



The superficial layer in the cave, which in some places rested on 

 the stalagmite and in others on the upper Cave-earth, and was 

 nowhere more than a few inches in thickness, contained the same 

 group of objects as that from the upper strata in the Victoria Cave. 



They consist of the following : — 



1. A harp-shaped Romano -British brooch, adorned with blue dia- 

 monds of enamel, flanked by red triangles, of the exact size and 

 form of that figured in my work on ' Cave-hunting' from the Victoria 

 Cave (coloured plate, fig. 1). The two are so alike that I have no 

 doubt that they were turned out of the same workshop. 



2. A flat lamina of bronze pierced at one end for suspension, and 

 at the other prolonged into two points which may have been used 

 as fixed compasses. It is an implement of the same kind as that 

 figured in 'Cave-hunting' from the Victoria Cave (coloured plate, 

 fig. 2). 



3. The boss of the hilt of a sword or dagger carved out of the 

 head of the femur of Horse or Ox, and ornamented with concentric 

 circles which may have been made with number 2. 



4. A fragment of Samian ware, and many fragments of grey lathe- 

 turned pottery of the usual Romano-British type, such as that found 

 in abundance at the Romano-British cemeteries of Hardham* and 

 Seafordf in Sussex. 



5. A whetstone. Numerous broken bones of animals which had 

 been used for food. 



G. A few human teeth, human vertebrae, a fragment of a femur, 

 of an ulna, and a few bones of the extremites were also met with. 



7. The remains of the animals imply a mixture of wild and 

 domestic species, as may be seen in the following Table : — 



* Dawkins, "Romano-British Cemetery and Roman Camp at Hardham," 

 Sussex Archaeol. Coll. 1863. 



t Price, Journ. Anthrop. Inst. vol. ri. p. 300. 



