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EXPLORATION OF THE ELBOLTON CAVE. BY REV. E. JONES. 
Exploration was continued until the end of December, 1890. 
The entrance to the Cave is through a shaft or pothole twenty feet 
in depth, situated at the foot of a small limestone scar on Elbolton, 
1000 feet above sea level. The chamber, before the exploration 
commenced, was thirty feet long, and varied from seven to thirteen 
feet in width. The floor was fairly level with the exception of a 
heap of stones under the entrance On the surface nothing was 
observed but a few sheep bones of recent origin. The upper stratum, 
which varied in thickness from four feet at the east to seventeen feet 
at the west end of the chamber, is the only one wherein human 
remains have yet been found. It consisted of loose angular frag- 
ments of limestone, interspersed with large quantities of bones of 
the Celtic short-horn, the boar, dog, red deer, sheep, &c. The larger 
of the animal bones were split and broken, and were evidently used 
as food. Burnt bones and charcoal were found in three places. Three 
skeletons were discovered buried with the legs bent, and the knees 
close to the skull. The other human bones were more or less scat- 
tered. Most of the skulls were shattered, though two obtained from 
the east end are fairly preserved, and are good typical specimens of 
the long-head type. But the human remains obtained from the other 
end of the chamber and at a much lower level thirteen and fifteen 
feet below the floor (one lying but a few inches above the clay con- 
taining bones of the bear and reindeer) are not dolichocephalic but 
brachycephalic. The latter are more decayed than the others. 
Associated with the round-head was pottery of different character 
to that which was found in the other parts of the cave. It is thicker, 
ruder, and with a different ornamentation. The pottery found near 
the long-headed men was marked with straight lines, in some cases 
cutting one another and forming a diamond-shaped ornamentation, 
in others going in and out without intersecting, forming a " herring- 
bone " pattern. Others had impressions made by some rounded bone 
tool. But the pottery found near the remains of the round-head is 
ornamented with wedge-shaped characters made with an angular 
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