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perforated, and had doubtless been used as an ornament. The 

 human remains were confusedly mingled with clay and angular 



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Fig. 3. — Section of Deposits in the Trou du Frontal. (Dupont.) 



stones, and a mass of the same materials (1) covered over the 

 old hearth and the hone-dehris (H H), and extended down the 

 slope of the hill so as to dip underneath the modern alluvium 

 of the Lesse. The bone-ctebris and the hearth must have been 

 in existence before the stony clay began to accumulate, and M. 

 Dupont has no doubt that the human skeletons are likewise of 

 older date than that superficial covering. Indeed, he does not 

 hesitate to connect the hone-debris at H H with the human 

 remains in the sepulchral cavity, and is of opinion that the 

 former are the relics of the feasts which took place at the 

 burials. In this, however, he may be mistaken, and, as Pro- 

 fessor Boyd Dawkins has pointed out, the burial-place may have 

 belonged to one people, and the refuse-heaps outside the slab to 

 another. We may suppose that the cavity was in use for a 

 burial-place after the clay with stones had accumulated, and 



