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looked over (at least as far as their surface layers are concerned) 
and here were obtained the coins, fibular, pottery and various 
implements of bronze, iron and bone, and also the bones of animals 
which are usually found accompanying such objects. Remains of 
this kind will probably never be found in the same abundance in 
the other chambers which are of course less accessible from the 
present opening-. The second chamber on the W. side is only 
approached by a narrow and difficult passage, and that on the E. 
side with its lofty roof so near to the grass above, drips very 
unpleasantly in wet weather, and would probably be little used 
in comparison with the outer chamber. We have abundant proof 
that the drip was extensive in former days, by finding numerous 
polished pebbles of stalagmite in the same layer with the imple- 
ments and pottery, exactly similar to those now forming in the 
cavities on the floor, and due to the same cause. Probably owing 
to the uncommon form of entrance none of the debris of former 
workings was removed from the cave, and thus a S3 T stematic in- 
vestigation was impossible. The passages from the first chambers 
on both sides have also been turned over for specimens. In that 
on the W. side some human skeletons were found by Mr. Farrer's 
workmen, apparently in a grave. Other human bones are describ- 
ed in the papers of this Society as coming from the cave, but 
with this exception the places are not specified ; also the 
sections dug and shortly described are never clearly referred to 
their position in the cave. The W. division has not been touched 
past the first passage. In the E. division the second chamber has 
been worked in various parts, and its covering of hard stalagmite 
entirely stripped off. It appears as if the workers had not found 
the work here so remunerative as in the other chambers, and had 
abandoned it after a few slight attempts From the beginning 
of the second passage the cave appears to be untouched except for 
a hole or two dug at the top of the slope down which the stream 
descends, at a distance of about 70 ft, from the second chamber. 
It now remains to describe our own work in the cave, and 
