J. MAGEJSTS MELLO OX THE BONE- CAVES OF CRESWELL CRAGS. 243 



Fig. 3, — Section in the Robin-Hood Cave, in line 2, Fig. 1. 



a. Surface-soil and thin breccia, 2-3 in. 



b. Cave-earth, with flint and quartzite implements, teeth, bones, angular lime- 



stone fragments, and charcoal, 3 ft. 



c. Eed Sand with laminated clay, few bones, 3 ft. 

 1. Fox-hole? 



Besides the bones, the breccia contained numerous flint flakes and 

 chips, as well as one or two flint cores. Although the majority of 

 the flints were chips, or flakes of the simplest character, some few 

 of them were of superior workmanship, being well-shaped spear- 

 heads, or large arrow-heads chipped on both surfaces ; there were 

 also one or two sharply pointed flints of the awl type. A few 

 quartzite implements, similar to those to be described in the suc- 

 ceeding bed, were found in the breccia. 



The Cave-earth (h). — The cave-earth contained some flint imple- 

 ments ; but besides these were a large number of split or chipped 

 quartzite pebbles, evidently fashioned by man, most of them having 

 a very definite bulb of percussion, and a general uniformity of 

 design prevailing amongst them. Amongst these quartzite imple- 

 ments are some fashioned on both faces, and which present in their 

 oval form a decidedly palaeolithic aspect ; a similarly shaped imple- 

 ment of clay-ironstone was found with these. Some of the pebble 

 implements were designed for hammers, one large one having a few 



