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Caves; that it was brought there by some of the Palaeolithic 
hunters is probable from its broken condition, but its appearance 
shows that its owner was a contemporary of the other animals of 
the locality, and was, it would appear, found dead, or else was 
killed by one of the earl}- Cave dwellers, who would prize its sharp 
saw-like teeth as most useful implements. The Woolly Rhinoceros 
as well as the Mammoth not only visited the district, but bred 
in it, as is evidenced by the large number of milk teeth found in 
the Caves. 
THE CHURCH HOLE. 
The sketch I have now given of the Robin Hood Cave and 
its contents would in most respects apply to the Church Hole Cave, 
which has a tolerably wide entrance chamber opening into a loug 
narrow fissure ; the general sequence of its beds agrees closely 
witii those of the former Cave, only differing in unimportant 
details ; whilst the evidence of the Robin Hood Cave as to the 
stages of progress in civilization during the Palaeolithic age is 
fully borne out by the remains found in the Church Hole. Human 
implements both of bone and flint were met with in the breccia, 
where present, and in the Cave earth, whilst the ruder forms of 
quartzite were characteristic of the lower beds ; somo of the bone 
implements from this Cave were carefully made, and consisted 
of a needle, some awls, grooved cylinders, which were probably 
spear heads ; " the group of implements from the upper strata is, 
on the whole, of the same general type as that of the Robin Hood 
Cave, although no fragments of the elaborately chipped 4 lance- 
heads' of the " type de Solutre" were discovered, nor any imple- 
ments of the S. Acheul or Moustier forms." 
The wild animals which have left their remains in the Church 
Hole call for no special remark, the history of the two Caves would 
be contemporary, and the animals frequenting the one would also 
find their way into the other ; the only observed difference apart 
from the absence of one or two species in the Church Hole, and 
the presence there of the Pole Cat, is that Hyenas seem to have 
been particularly partial to this Cave during the earlier stage of 
