50 
and bones of the wolf and goat, and also horns of the deer. On 
the first examination of these different caves by Mr. Jackson, 
the bones and teeth of animals were found with relics of 
human art scattered indiscriminately over the floor, or just 
below the surface in the charcoal ashes previously alluded to, 
and the first collection of specimens obtained from thence, 
consisting of various articles of supposed British and Roman 
art, coins, bones and teeth of the tiger, hyaena, bear, and wild 
boar, (which had been identified by the late Dr. Buckland,) 
were deposited in the British Museum, and a descrip- 
tion of the antiquities was brought before the Society of 
Antiquaries of London, by Mr. Charles Roach Smith, the 
eminent archaeologist, and since published in his Collectanea 
Antiqua. The result of Mr. Jackson's subsequent explora- 
tions I now venture to bring before this society as a subject 
of local interest, and also as a record of the important ser- 
vices which the unaided labours of one individual have been 
the means of accomplishing ; as to Mr. Jackson belongs the 
merit of first excavating and collecting the various objects of 
interest from these caves. 
That these several caves were for a considerable period the 
abode of human beings, is evident from the number of per- 
sonal ornaments and implements of various kinds which have 
been found by Mr. Jackson, independent of numerous speci- 
mens obtained by Mr. Hodgson for Mr. Farrer. Those at 
present in the possession of the former gentleman consist of 
about twenty-four fibulae of bronze and five of iron of various 
sizes and patterns, many in fine preservation and elegant or- 
namentation, some having apparently been plated with silver ; 
two bronze armlets and four fragments of others ; two rings, 
one of which has had a signet of red enamel, the other plain ; 
bronze articles like studs ; one long comb, probably for the 
back of the head, and fragment of another ornamented ; 
portions of two others in form like an ordinary small-tooth 
