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MAN AND THE GLACIAL PERIOD. 



is " 180 to 190 feet above the level of mean tide, and 

 about 70 feet above the bottom of the valley immediately 

 adjacent."* In one chamber the excavation was about 

 sixty feet square. The contents were arranged in the fol- 

 lowing order : 



ST^ 



£*** 





,.• 



Fig. 78.— Mouth of Kent's Hole. 



1. A surface of dark earth a few inches thick, contain- 

 ing Roman pottery, iron and bronze spear-heads, together 

 with polished stone weapons. There were, too, in this 

 stratum bones of cows, goats, and horses, mingled with 

 large quantities of charcoal. 



* Dawkins's Cave-Hunting, p. 325. 



