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MELL0 : CRESWELL CAVES. 
Acheulien of De Mortillet. Q, J. G. S., Nov. 1879. 
The remains of historic or prehistoric age found in Mother 
Grundy's Parlour, consisted of the bones of such recent animals as 
were commonly met with in the surface soil of the other Caves, 
the sheep, goat, shorthorn ox, pig, etc. Besides these, some 
portions of human skeletons also occured, representing four young 
individuals, which appeared to have been buried in the Cave, and two 
skulls, found, one in the entrance chamber, the other in the side 
fissure, belonged to two different types, the former being 
brachycephalic or roundheaded, the latter dolichocephalic or long 
headed ; neither of them however are considered by Prof. Dawkins 
to date from the Paleolithic age, they were found in disturbed 
soil, and as far as mere appearance goes, the one may have be- 
longed to one of the early Celts, and the other to an individual of 
that long-headed Iberic race — the traces of which are still to be 
met with amongst the populations of Western Europe. 
CONCLUSION. 
The history of Creswell is now tolerably complete ; it carries 
us far back into those dim Geological ages when our island was 
united to the Continent, and the Hippopotamus and its companion 
Elephants and Rhinoceroses, found their way from the south as 
far north as Yorkshire from their southern home, when the dark 
pine forests which then clothed much of the country re -echoed to 
the roar of the Lion and the Leopard, the howl of the Wolf, and 
the horrid laughter of the Hyenas ; up the long eastern valley we 
may picture to ourselves the wandering tribe of hunters and fisher- 
men making their way, halting now here now there, until they 
rest for awhile in the sheltered ravine at Creswell, where with 
their rude implements of stone they little by little fight their way 
up to higher stages of culture, or may be overcome in the hard 
struggle for existence and replaced by tribes slightly more advanced 
in civilization than themselves. How long a time elapsed, who 
shall say, at one time the Caves would shelter the hunter, at 
another they would be the dens of Hyenas and other savage beasts ; 
whilst many vicissitude* of climate must have been experienced by 
