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been used for—comparatively speaking—long periods, since 
those parts of the stones which have been used for rubbing 
down the pigment, are not only coloured by it, but have be- 
come flattened and smoothed by wear. One of these grinders 
is made of a fairly fine-grained black rock, similar to that of 
the flakes. It is of a convenient shape for grasping in the 
hand, and a part of its surface at one end is much worn, this 
worn surface being coloured with iron-oxide. The second is a 
somewhat spherical granite (?) pebble which has been partly 
flattened tangentially by long use; the third, a pebble of fine- 
grained stone with an oval section, is deeply stained with 
tuddle, and has one face ground quite smooth. 
Bones and teeth of animals devoured by the cave-dwell- 
er 
fairly numerous, and I have, so far, been able to identify 
remains of pigs, deer, cattle (Bos gaurus), monkeys, soft- 
turtles and tortoises. Nearly all the bones had been broken 
to obtain the marrow, and many of the fragments, especially 
those found in layers of ashes, were charred. 
The molluscan remains comprise shells of a species of 
M elania—some of them ang traces of burning—and valves 
of a fresh-water mussel (Unio?). The Melania-shells were very 
numerous, and large numbers were found in every sieveful of 
earth taken. 
We now come to the pottery ; most of this is rough brown- 
ish ware—seemingly pieces of cooking pots—roughly cross- 
hatched to forma lozenge pattern. The patterns, which in 
all cases are of the same type, though they vary in size, appear 
to have been Ss by pressing a cord against the pots 
before the clay was dry; for, in most of the pieces, the 
depressed lines ok the hatching show twist-marks, and, on 
making experiment, I have been able to obtain exactly similar 
results by pressing a tightly stretched string against a pat of 
wet clay. The edges of some of the pots with this type of 
decoration are further ornamented with perpendicular lines, 
obviously made with a sharp tool. 
There is reason for thinking that some of the rougher 
pottery may have been made on the spot, since I found three 
.worked lumps of clay, which appear to have been hardened 
‘by fire. Two of these are small hillock or mound-shaped 
pieces, and one of them still shows a finger-print. The third 
is of irregular shape, but exhibits a couple of rough markings, 
probably made with a wooden tool, or tools, while a piece has 
been pinched out of one edge between the finger and thumb 
of the right hand while its material was still soft; thus 
leaving an indentation, 
A few small pieces of smooth and well-shaped brown ware 
were also met with, these being from the first two feet of soil. 
The unglazed pottery comprises pieces of the rims, bases and 
bodies of medium-sized vessels. Some of the shards are 
