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those animals. Part of the jaw and one of the cranial bones of 

 a fish were also fonnd. These may all be supposed to have been 

 brought there by human agency, or to have inhabited the cavern 

 at the same time as man. But there were likewise many bones 

 of small wild birds as well as of barn-door fowls, some of them 

 with feathers still attached, and all evidently of quite recent 

 origin. For these the fox must doubtless be held responsible. 



It will be seen that none of these remains necessarily indicate 

 great antiquity. Even as belonging to the historical era they 

 would scarcely appear to date many centuries back. Had the 

 human bones and shells not been present, the rest of the remains 

 could easily have been accounted for by our looking upon the 

 cave as an old fox-hole. We conclude, however, that the cave 

 must, at some time or other, have been used by man as a place 

 of resort — as is indicated by the burnt wood and remains of edible 

 shell-fish — and afterwards, either by intention or accident, as a 

 place of burial. We have evidence of the presence of not less 

 than seven human beings, five of whom seem to have been males, 

 one a female, and one a child. Why so many of our fellow 

 creatures should have left their remains there, at a period which 

 cannot but have been comparatively recent, is difficult to under- 

 stand ; nor can we even venture to hazard a conjecture as regards 

 this part of the subject. 



XY. — On the Opening and Examination of a Barrow of the British 

 Period at Warhshaugh, North Tynedale. By the Bev. Geo. 

 Bome Hall. (Plate XY.) 



Among the numerous vestiges of the pre-historic vale-dwellers of 

 the North Tyne, yet remaining, are several tumuli or barrows. 

 At High Shield Green a group of such burial mounds takes 

 the form of an ancient cemetery. They are clustered around a 

 great central cairn on a lofty eminence, not far from several 

 ancient British camps. In the autumn of last year (1864), six 

 or seven of these barrows were carefully examined, including 



