﻿54 MESSES. ARNOLD-BEMROSE AND NEWTON ON AN [Feb. I9C5, 



The fallow-deer has not been recorded from any undoubted 

 Pleistocene deposit in Britain, and its presence in this cave at once 

 suggests a recent origin for the deposits. We think, however, 

 that the physical conditions show this to be untenable (see p. 44). 



Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins * says that the fallow-deer 



'was probably introduced by the Romans, since its remains occur in refuse- 

 heaps of Roman age, .... while it has not been met with in older deposits.' 



We must bear in mind, however, that the same writer had previously 

 described the closely-allied Cervus Browni 2 from the Pleistocene of 

 Clacton ; this we only know by its antlers, and, although it may 

 otherwise be indistinguishable from C. dama, we cannot refer our 

 specimens to that species. 



The remains which we here refer to fallow-deer were found at 

 every horizon in the cave from which bones have been obtained. 



Capeeoltjs CArREA, Gray. (Eoebuck.) (PI. VIII, fig. 4.) 



There are a few bones that can be accepted with more or less 

 certainty as representing this species ; these include metacarpal, 

 metatarsal, and other foot- and limb-bones, with perhaps one or 

 two pieces of antlers. 



These specimens were found in upper layers at Nos. Ill, IV, & 

 7, and also in the lower layer at No. 9. 



Stjs scrofa, Linn. (Wild Boar.) 



Only four specimens belonging to this species have been found ; 

 one of these is a large upper second molar, the crown of which 

 measures 36 millimetres in length and 22 mm. in width, and indi- 

 cates a fully-adult animal of large size. A right lower second 

 molar, corresponding in size to the upper tooth just mentioned, 

 measures 24 mm. in length and 16*5 mm. in width. 



The exact horizon of these teeth is not known, but the other two 

 representatives of the species were found in layer 'No. II, and in the 

 south-south-eastern lower layer (No. 9). 



Rhinoceros leptorrtntjs, Owen. 



The remains of Rhinoceros have been found rather plentifully, 

 and include most parts of the skeleton ; they are, however, all more 

 or less broken. This imperfection may be due, in some degree, to 

 the carelessness of the workmen. 



We have been fortunate in securing two examples of the rare first 

 upper premolar, besides other premolars, molars, and milk-teeth. 

 These teeth are of the characteristic leptorhinus-ioxm, and nothing- 

 has been detected that would point to the presence of Rhinoceros 

 antiquitatis in the cave. Both species have been met with in 

 British caves, and sometimes they have been found together. 



1 ' Cave-Hunting ' 1874, p. 77. 



2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxiv (1868) p. 511. 



