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these remains a number of worked flints was found. In 

 one place the bones of an entire leg of a cave bear occurred 

 in such a position as to show that they must have been 

 bound together by the ligaments when they were buried. 

 Immediately below these bones a flint implement was 

 found.* 



The hyena's den, at "Wookey Hole, near Wells, in Som- 

 erset, was carefully explored by Professor Boyd Dawkins, 

 who stood by and examined every shovelful of material as 

 it was thrown out. 



This cave alone yielded 35 specimens of palaeolithic 

 art, 467 jaws and teeth of the cave hyena, 15 of the cave 

 lion, 27 of the cave bear, 11 of the grizzly bear, 11 of the 

 brown bear, 7 of the wolf, 8 of the fox, 30 of the mam- 

 moth, 233 of the woolly rhinoceros, 401 of the horse, 16 of 

 the wild ox, 30 of the bison, 35 of the Irish elk, and 30 of 

 the reindeer (jaws and teeth only). 



In Derbyshire numerous caves were explored by Pro- 

 fessor Dawkins at Cress well Crags, which, in addition to 

 flint implements and the remains of the animals occurring 

 in the Brixham cave, yielded the bones of the machairodus, 

 an extinct species of tiger or lion which lived during the 

 Tertiary period. 



The Victoria cave, near Settle, in west Yorkshire, is 

 the only other one in England which we need to mention. 

 In this there were no remains found which could be posi- 

 tively identified as human, but the animal remains in the 

 lower strata of the cave deposit were so different from those 

 in the upper bed as to indicate the great lapse of time 

 which separated the two. This cave is 1,450 feet above the 

 sea-level, and there were found in the upper strata of the 

 floor, down to a depth of from two to ten feet, many re- 

 mains of existing animals. Then, for a distance of twelve 

 feet, there occurred a clay deposit, containing no organic re- 



* See Pengelly's Reports to the Devonshire Association, 1867. 



