BONE-CA.VES IN NORTH WALES. 



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Pig. 9. — Flint Scraper from 

 Cae Gwyn Cave. 



finely wrought lanceolate blade, he says, greatly resembles the one, 

 found in Kent's Cavern, which is figured at page 450 of his ' Ancient 

 Stone Implements,' 1872. Another seems also to be of a similar type. 

 Others appear to have been scrapers, but are not perfect. All show 

 indications of having been used, and they have now a white porcel- 

 lanous appearance. A large round pebble of diabase was also 

 found in this cavern, and there is every reason to suppose that it 

 must have been conveyed into it for use by man. At one point 

 there is a depression in it as if produced by a blow, and from this 

 there are several radiating fractures, the result of the same force, 

 but widened since by infiltrations, 



Cae Gwyn Cave. 



When I first crept into this cavern, in August 1884, the entrance 

 was almost closed up by a heap of debris. A portion of the cavern 

 had evidently been quarried away at some time, and I believe the 

 original entrance must have been at least 25 feet more forward in 

 the ravine. A brecciated, nearly vertical cliff-face remains, which 

 probably shows the direction of the 

 cavern, as also of a line of frac- 

 ture. Beyond the debris for some 

 distance into the cavern, there 

 was a space between the loam and 

 the roof of from 2| to 4 feet. We 

 thought it best to make a trial at a 

 small chamber (C, fig. 8) which we 

 reached at about 45 feet from the 

 actual entrance. Here we dis- 

 covered, under the loam and some 

 laminated clay, bones belonging to 

 Rhinoceros, Horse, Reindeer, and 

 Red Deer. We also found a small, 

 well-worked flint scraper (fig. 9), 

 stated by Dr. Evans to resemble 

 some found in the French caves of 

 the Reindeer period. This is not 

 so porcellanous in appearance as 

 those found in the Efynnon Beuno 

 Cave, and retains in part the na- 

 tural colour. No further attempts 

 to examine this cavern were then 

 made, and the owner, E. Morgan, 

 Esq., very kindly offered to close it up until we were able to begin 

 our explorations this year. 



Before commencing the work, some time had to be expended in 

 clearing away the debris which blocked up the entrance, so as to give 

 a free passage for the wheelbarrows. The deposits between the 

 entrance and chamber C are fairly indicated in fig. 10 (sect. 1). 

 The loam (1) varied from 2 to 3 feet in thickness, and con- 

 tained bones only of recent animals. The underlying laminated 

 clay (2) was only a few inches thick in some places, where disturbed 





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Upper view. 

 Side view. 



