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THE GEOLOGIST. 
Within, the cave is distinguished by chambers, alternating with 
narrow passages. The floor is generally not more than three feet deep, 
at which depth the limestone is met with as at the roof and sides. 
The entrance being conspicuous, it is often visited from curiosity, 
but has never before been carefully explored for the definite purpose 
of discovering works of ancient art. This search was prompted by 
the recent discoveries in France and at Hoxne, strongly seconded by 
the fact that above, on the Eidgeway, some six or seven barrows 
exist, wh^!ch yielded to the reporter and others a few years since, not 
only cinerary urns, but also well-shaped flint arrow-heads. 
So much by way of introduction. 
The Section will be glad to learn that the search in this cave for 
flint weapons has been successful, and that the number found is 
seventy-three, including the identical lumps of flint which remained 
after the chips had been struck ofi", wlien from their reduced size 
they were no longer capable of yielding flakes sufiiciently large to 
answer the destined purpose, whatever that might be. 
Some of these specimens are of ordinary flint, but a good many 
are of a dull-green opaque chert. In size they vary from about four 
inches in length, downward. In general form they are almost iden- 
tical with the flakes found at Eed Hill. They were disseminated 
through the soil, but much the most thickly scattered at the mouth 
of a recess near the entrance, where the fabricator might be supposed 
to have seated himself to take advantage of the light. 
Interspersed also through the soil, which in some places is almost 
black, were a great many bones ; most of them those of ruminants, 
such as are now domesticated ; some of them fish-bones, with the 
shells of edible mollusks ; and some few unmistakably the remains 
of cave-mammals, such as Ursus spelceus, J^quiis cahalliis, Hyana 
spel(Ea, and the teeth of some species of deer. Of this last animal, 
though apparently of a later age, there is one very fine front prong 
of an antler, which measures 11 inches, and the circumference 4y 
inches at the base, where there are long marks across as if done with 
some tool. To these works of ancient art and animal remains must 
be added some very modern articles ; one of them the half of a Shef- 
field penknife, which, however, seemed to have been buried some 
years. 
The conclusions and inferences which the author of this report has 
come to will be comprehended in replies to the following questions : — 
1st. "What was the use of these flakes ? 2. By what race of men 
were they fabricated ? 3. Whence was the material derived ? 
Eirst, the use of these flint, and chert flakes. The conviction ar- 
period between the pre-historical and the Celtic nations. He describes one of these 
" celts " as " une hache a gaine on demi-polie. Le tranchant Vest entierement. La 
partie destinee a entrer dans la gatne ne Vest pas." 
In the British Museum collection of antiquities, an object, termed by Mr. BoUaert a 
" stone club," is preserved from Cocina, in Peru, near Noria. Mr. Gilbert Brandon has 
also preserved a " stone hatchet-blade used in the time of the Incas," from Cuzco ; whilst 
amongst the Mexican antiquities presented by Lady AVebstcr, is to be found a " cincel de 
los Indios, encontrado en una sepuUura" — where, is not stated. 
