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14. Distribution of Implements in the Cave. 



The distribution of implements in the cave represents, as may be 

 seen from the preceding Table, three distinct stages. During the 

 time of the deposit of the lower stratum Man is not represented 

 among the fauna of the district. While the cave-earth was being 

 accumulated, his presence is marked principally by the quartzite 

 implements formed out of an intractable material, and far ruder 

 than those which are generally formed out of the more easily 

 lashioned flint. 



Of ninety-four worked quartzite pebbles, only three were found 

 in the breccia, while eight only of the 267 worked flints were met 

 with in the cave-earth (including fig. 8). The hunter, therefore, of 

 the cave-earth period used quartzite for most of his implements, 

 while that of the age of the breccia used flint, the overlapping of 

 the two materials in this cave being comparatively slight. 



15. The Ruder Implements the Older. 



The workmanship of the later of these two periods of human 

 occupation is of a higher order than the former. If, for example, 

 we compare figs. 6, 9, 10, 11 with figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, it is impossible 

 to resist the conclusion that the hunter of the breccia-age was better 

 equipped than his predecessor of the era of the cave-earth. 



If these groups of implements be compared with those found in 

 other palaeolithic deposits, it will be seen that the older quartzite 

 division corresponds in its general form with that series which is 

 assigned by M. de Mortillet (' Materiaux,' Mars 1869, " Essai d'une 

 Classification ") to " the age of Moustier and St. Acheul," and which 

 is represented in this country by the rude implements of the lower 

 breccia in Kent's Hole. The newer or flint division, on the other 

 hand, contains among its forms more highly finished implements, 

 such as figs. 6 and 7, which correspond with those which are con- 

 sidered by M. de Mortillet to belong to " the age of Solutre," and 

 which are found in this country in the cave-earth of Kent's Hole 

 and Wookey Hole. In this cave, therefore, we have a direct relation, 

 in point of time, established between the rude types of implements 

 below and the more finished ones above, which is a fact of no small 

 importance in the classification of Palaeolithic implements. In all 

 future cave-explorations it will be necessary to keep a keen look-out 

 for broken pebbles and roughly-edged stones, with scarcely any 

 marks of design, which may have served the ends of savages of a far 

 lower culture than those whose history has been revealed to us in 

 the caves of Pe'rigord and of Belgium. 



16. Norih-ivestem Range of Palaeolithic Hunters. 



This discovery of implements in Derbyshire extends considerably 

 the known range of the Palaeolithic hunter to the north and to the 

 west. Hitherto the Yale of Clwyd has been the district furthest to 

 the north in this country in which his implements have been dis- 

 covered. The fragment of human fibula in the Victoria cave has 



