306 W. Pengelly—Cavern Exploration in Devonshire. 
number and variety of potsherds, including fragments of 
Samian ware 
The e granular stalagmite, black band, and cave-earth, taken 
together as belonging to one and the ‘same biological period, 
may be termed the Hycnine beds, the cave hyena p09 8 5a 
most prevalent species, and four id in them alone. So f 
they have been identified, the remains belong to ss cave 
yena, Hquus caballus, Rhinoceros tichorhinus, gigantic Trish 
deer, Bos primigenius, Bison priscus, red deer, mammoth, badger, 
Sewekes made from flakes, not nodules, of ie and chert; flint 
flakes, chips, and ‘cores ;” ‘‘ whetstones, “ hammer-stone,” 
“dead” shells of Pecten, bits of charcoal, Mi bone tools, includ- 
ing a needle or bodkin ‘having a well-forme eye, a pin, an awl, 
three harpoons, m4 a perforated tooth of badger. The artificial 
objects, of both bone and yroty were found at all depths in 
each of the ieenstie beds, but were much more numerous 
below the stalagmite than in i 
The relics found in the crystalline stalagmite and the breccia, 
in some places extremely abundant, were almost exclusively 
those of bear, the only oo being a very few remains 0 
cave line and fox. Hence these have been termed the Ursine 
beds. It will be remembered ‘that teeth and bones of bear were 
ene N. NE., sient ‘the top of the lofty cliff pape the 
northern boundary of the beautiful Ansty’s Cove, Torquay, 
there is a cavern -where, simultaneously with those in Kent’s 
Cavern, Mr. MacEnery conducted some researches, of which he 
has left a lee account (see Trans. Devon. ape vi, Pp: 
. bear, Ps hysena i coprolites, a few marine and land 
shells, one white aig tool with fragments of others, a Roman 
coin, and potshe 
