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  ON 
  THE 
  EXPLORATION 
  OP 
  TWO 
  CAVES 
  AT 
  TENBY. 
  

  

  manner 
  of 
  distribution 
  of 
  the 
  flints 
  in 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  cave, 
  show 
  

   that 
  the 
  cave 
  was 
  used 
  as 
  a 
  place 
  of 
  habitation. 
  The 
  distribution 
  

   of 
  the 
  human 
  bones, 
  which 
  were 
  few 
  in 
  number, 
  but 
  well 
  preserved, 
  

   leads 
  me 
  (and 
  led 
  Mr. 
  Smith) 
  to 
  infer 
  that 
  the 
  cave 
  had 
  been 
  used 
  

   as 
  a 
  place 
  of 
  sepulture. 
  

  

  From 
  these 
  considerations, 
  the 
  remains 
  in 
  the 
  Hoyle's 
  Mouth 
  

   must 
  evidently 
  be 
  assigned, 
  not 
  to 
  the 
  palaeolithic, 
  but 
  to 
  the 
  neoli- 
  

   thic 
  period. 
  

  

  Discussion. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Boyd 
  Dawkins 
  had 
  examined 
  the 
  caves 
  in 
  question, 
  and 
  

   quite 
  agreed 
  with 
  the 
  author 
  in 
  his 
  views 
  concerning 
  the 
  Coygan 
  

   cave. 
  He 
  was 
  not 
  so 
  sure 
  that 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  deposits 
  in 
  the 
  Hoyle's 
  

   Mouth 
  are 
  not 
  palaeolithic. 
  He 
  thought 
  the 
  caves 
  ought 
  to 
  be 
  

   called 
  tunnel-caves, 
  and 
  not 
  fissures. 
  The 
  mammoth 
  remains 
  of 
  

   the 
  Bristol 
  Channel 
  do 
  not 
  occur 
  in 
  the 
  submarine 
  forest, 
  but 
  in 
  an 
  

   underlying 
  gravel. 
  He 
  did 
  not 
  consider 
  the 
  submarine 
  forest 
  as 
  of 
  

   Pleistocene, 
  but 
  of 
  Neolithic 
  age. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Hicks 
  said 
  though 
  his 
  friend 
  Mr. 
  Allen 
  and 
  himself 
  were 
  

   the 
  first 
  to 
  explore 
  the 
  Coygan 
  cave, 
  he 
  had 
  not 
  had 
  the 
  oppor- 
  

   tunity 
  of 
  making 
  a 
  complete 
  investigation. 
  He 
  agreed 
  with 
  the 
  

   author 
  as 
  to 
  its 
  being 
  a 
  Hyaena-den, 
  and 
  he 
  had 
  described 
  it 
  as 
  such 
  

   in 
  his 
  paper 
  in 
  1867. 
  He 
  regretted 
  that 
  the 
  worked 
  flints 
  were 
  not 
  

   exhibited 
  to 
  the 
  Society, 
  but 
  was 
  much 
  pleased 
  to 
  find 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  

   been 
  discovered, 
  and 
  that 
  some 
  fresh 
  additions 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  the 
  

   list 
  of 
  animal 
  remains 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  caverns, 
  

  

  